“ The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble. ”
The arrow - Hebrew “the son of the bow.” So Lamentations 3:13 , margin. This use of the word son is common in the Scriptures and in all Oriental poetry. Sling-stones - The sling was early us...
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...
The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
Sling-stones are turned with him into stubble— He throweth about sling-stones like stubble. Heath. Sling-stones are no more to him than stubble. Houb. An extraordinary instance of the strength...
The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble. Arrow - literally, the son of the bow; Oriental imagery, ( Lamentations 3:13 , margin.) Stubble - sling stone...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
The arrow cannot make him flee ,.... The skin of the crocodile is so hard, as Peter Martyr says, that it cannot be pierced with arrows, as before observed; therefore it is not afraid of them, nor wi...
The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble. Ver. 28. The arrow cannot make him flee ] Heb. Sons of the bow; as, Job 5:7 , sparks are called Boas of the coal. Arr...
He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood He neither fears, nor feels, the blows of the one more than of the other. The arrow cannot make him flee Hebrew, the son of the bow , as it i...
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...
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...
The arrow, Heb. the son of the bow ; as it is elsewhere called the son of the quiver , Lamentations 3:13 ; the quiver being as it were the mother or womb that bears it, and the bow as the fath...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Job's Weakness when Compared with the Strength of the Crocodile
Habakkuk 1:10 ; Job 39:7
Turned — Hurt him no more than a blow with a little stubble.