“ Sharp stonesf are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire. ”
Sharp stones are under him - Margin, as in Hebrew, “pieces of pot sherd.” The Hebrew word ( חדוד chaddûd ), means “sharp, pointed”; and the phrase used here means “the sharp points of a potshe...
Sharp stones (i) [are] under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire. (i) His skin is so hard that he lies with a great ease on the stones as in the mud.
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...
Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire. Sharp stones are under him - So hard and impenetrable are his scales, that splinters of flint are the same to him as the...
Sharp stones are under him— His nether parts are like sharp potsherds. He dasheth himself on the mud like a threshing cart. Heath. חרוצ charutz, is rightly rendered by Bochart tribula, an ins...
Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire. Sharp stones - rather, as margin, potsherds х chaduwdeey ( H2303 ) chaares ( H2789 )]: i:e., the sharp an...
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...
( 30 ) He spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire. — Some render, “He spreadeth, as it were, a threshing-wain upon the mire.” The statement is, that he not only can lie without inconvenience...
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...
Sharp stones [are] under him ,.... And yet give him no pain nor uneasiness; he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire ; and makes his bed of them and lies upon them; as sharp stones, as befo...
Sharp stones [are] under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire. Ver. 30. Sharp stones are under him ] Heb. Sharp pieces of the potsherd, Acumina testacea, which prick him no more...
Sharp stones חדודי חרשׂ, chadudee chares, acumina testæ , vel testacea, sharp points of potsherds, are under him He can repose himself on rocks, or stones, whose edges, or points, are sharp, lik...
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...
According to this translation the sense is, his skin is so hard and impenetrable, that the sharpest stones are as easy to him as the mire, and make no more impression upon him. But the words are and...
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...
sharp stones Hebrew, sharp pieces of potsherd.
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
2 Samuel 22:43 ; Job 17:13 ; Proverbs 3:14 ; Proverbs 8:10 ; Psalms 18:42 ; Psalms 68:13
Stones — His skin is so impenetrable, that the sharpest stones or shells are as easy unto him as the mire.