Job 41:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves. ”

• Job 41:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  When he raiseth up himself - When he rouses himself for an attack or in self-defense. The mighty are afraid - The Vulgate renders this “anqels.” The meaning is, that he produces alarm on thos...

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• Job 41:25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 41. Leviathan. The author regards the crocodile as impossible of capture. In Job 41:1 b perhaps the meaning is that when caught the crocodile cannot be led about by a rope round his tongue an...

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• Job 41:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  breakings . terrors. purify themselves . mistake their way; are bewildered; or, beside themselves.

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• Job 41:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves. By reason of breakings they purify themselves - No version, either ancient or modern, appears to have...

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• Job 41:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  When he raiseth up himself, &c.— When he raiseth up himself, the mighty fly; the princes quit their purposed journey. Houb. Heath renders the last clause; for very terror they fall to the gr...

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• Job 41:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves. When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid. The crocodile: a type of the awe which the...

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• Job 41:25 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Second Speech of the Almighty (concluded) The second great creature, the Crocodile (with which the 'leviathan' is generally identified) is now described. If Job cannot control the crocodile, d...

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• Job 41:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  By reason of breakings — i.e., the waves he makes in the water, or the breakings he makes among the plants and trees in the water. They purify themselves — i.e. , they are beside themselves;...

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• Job 41:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXVIII. THE RECONCILIATION Job 38:1 - Job 42:6 THE main argument of the address ascribed to the Almighty is contained in Chapter s 38 and 39 and in the opening verses of chapter 42. Job make...

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• Job 41:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Parable of the Crocodile Job 41:1-34 The last paragraph described the hippopotamus; the whole of this chapter is devoted to the crocodile. In a series of striking questions the voice of the...

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• Job 41:25 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Leviathan is almost certainly the crocodile, and there is the playfulness of a great tenderness in the suggestions Jehovah makes to Job about these fierce creations. Can Job catch him with a rope or...

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• Job 41:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (11) В¶ Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine. (12) I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. (13) Who can discove...

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• Job 41:25 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  AN AWE-INSPIRING OBJECT ‘When He raiseth up Himself, the mighty are afraid.’ Job 41:25 Leviathan is almost certainly the crocodile, and there is the playfulness of a great tenderness in the...

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• Job 41:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  When he raiseth up himself ,.... Not out of the waters, but above the surface of them, so as that his large bulk, his terrible jaws and teeth, are seem; the mighty are afraid ; not only fishes and...

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• Job 41:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves. Ver. 25. When he raiselh up himself, the mighty are afraid ] When he shows himself like some movin...

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• Job 41:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  When he raiseth up himself Showing himself upon the top of the waters; the mighty are afraid Even the stout-hearted, who used to be above fear. By reason of breakings By reason of their great d...

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• Job 41:25 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  LEVIATHAN (vv.1-34) Leviathan was a water creature, and appears to be the crocodile, the most fearsome of all aquatic beasts, unless it was another similar animal, now extinct. Job could use a h...

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• Job 41:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.   12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.   13 Who can di...

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• Job 41:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  When he raiseth up himself; showing himself upon the top of the waters. Or, because of his height , or greatness , or majesty ; for he is represented as a king, Job 41:31 . The mighty ; even...

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• Job 41:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  Notes Job 41:1 . “ Canst thou draw out Leviathan with a hook .” The term “Leviathan” (לִוְיָתָן) rendered here by the SEPTUAGINT, SYRIAC, and ARABIC, “the dragon.” The VULGATE and TARGUM leave it...

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• Job 41:25 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 41:1 . Canst thou draw out leviathan? This word is rendered by the LXX, “dragon.” It occurs in Isaiah 27:1 , and is rendered whale, dragon, and serpent. Men are now satisfied that it is n...

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• Job 41:25 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Canst thou draw out Leviathan? Behemoth and leviathan The description of the “behemoth” in the preceding chapter and the “leviathan” here suggests a few moral reflections. I. The prodigality...

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• Job 41:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 41:1-18 The crowning description of a natural marvel—the "leviathan," or crocodile—is now given, and with an elaboration to which there is no parallel in the rest of Scriptur...

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• Job 41:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job's Weakness when Compared with the Strength of the Crocodile

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• Job 41:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Jonah 1:4-6 ; Psalms 107:28

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• Job 41:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Raiseth — Upon the top of the waters. Mighty — Even the stout — hearted. Breakings — By reason of their great danger and distress; which is expressed by this very word, Psalms 60:2 ; Jonah 2:4 ....

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