“ He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary. ”
He maketh a path to shine after him - This refers doubtless to the white foam of the waters through which he passes. If this were spoken of some monster that commonly resides in the ocean, it wou...
He maketh a path to (l) shine after him; [one] would think the deep [to be] hoary. (l) That is, a white froth and shining stream before him.
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...
He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary. He maketh a path to shine after him - In certain states of the weather a rapid motion through the water disengages many...
One would think the deep to be hoary— He accounteth the deep as his habitation. Heath. Houbigant renders the verse, He leaves behind him a shining path; he esteems the deep to be dry land.—Rutil...
He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary. Path - the foam on his track. Hoary - as the hair of the aged.
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...
He maketh a path to shine after him ,.... Upon the sea, by raising a white from upon it, through its vehement motion as it passes along, or by the spermaceti it casts out and leaves behind it. It is...
He maketh a path to shine after him; [one] would think the deep [to be] hoary. Ver. 32. He maketh a path to shine after him ] A ship doth so, much more a whale. One would think the deep to be h...
He maketh the deep The deep waters; to boil like a pot To swell, and foam, and froth, by his strong and vehement motion, as any liquor does when it is boiled in a pot, especially boiling ointmen...
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...
When he raiseth himself to the top of the waters, he doth as it were plough it up, and make large furrows, and causeth a white froth or foam upon the waters.
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
Genesis 1:15 ; Genesis 1:2 ; Genesis 15:15 ; Genesis 25:8 ; Genesis 42:38 ; Job 28:14 ; Job 38:16 ; Job 38:30 ; Proverbs 16:31 ; Proverbs 20:29
Shine — By the white froth or foam upon the waters. The same may be observed in the wake of a ship by night.