“ Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee? ”
Will he make many supplications unto thee? - In the manner of a captive begging for his life. That is, will he quietly submit to you? Prof. Lee supposes that there is an allusion here to the well...
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...
Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee? Will he make many supplications - There are several allusions in these verses to matters of which we know nothing.
Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee? Soft words - that thou mayest spare his life. No; he is untameable.
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...
(1) В¶ Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? (2) Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? (3) Will he make...
Will he make many supplications unto thee ?.... To cease pursuing him, or to let him go when taken, or to use him well and not take away his life; no, he is too spirited and stouthearted to ask any...
Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft [words] unto thee? Ver. 3. Will he make many supplications unto thee? ] As conquered captives use to do; witness Benhadad, 1 Kings 20...
Will he make supplications unto thee? Doth he dread thy anger or power? Or will he earnestly beg thy favour? It is a metaphor from men in distress, who use these means to them to whose power they a...
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...
Description of Leviathan. B. C. 1520. 1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? or hi...
Doth he dread thine anger or power? or will he humbly and earnestly beg thy favour, that thou wouldst spare him, and not pursue him, or release him out of prison? It is a metaphor from men in distres...
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
Isaiah 30:10 ; Proverbs 15:1 ; Proverbs 18:23 ; Proverbs 25:15 ; Psalms 55:21
Supplications — Doth he dread thine anger or power? Or will he earnestly beg thy favour? It is a metaphor from men in distress, who use these means to them to whose power they are subject.