“ He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride. ”
He beholdeth all high things - That is, he looks down on everything as inferior to him. He is a king over all the children of pride - Referring, by “the children of pride,” to the animals tha...
He beholdeth (m) all high [things]: he [is] a king over all the children of pride. (m) He despises all other beasts and monsters, and is the proudest of all others.
Job 40:15 to Job 41:34 . Behemoth and Leviathan. Most scholars regard this passage as a later addition to the poem. The point of Job 40:8-14 is God's reply to Job's criticism of His righteousn...
children of pride . sons of pride, or proud beasts.
He beholdeth all high things : he is a king over all the children of pride. He is a king over all the children of pride - There is no animal in the waters that does not fear and fly from him. Henc...
He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride. Beheldeth - as their superior. Children of pride - the proud and fierce beasts. So Job 28:8 ; Hebrew, sons of p...
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...
Upon earth there is not his like. — Some have proposed to take away the last two verses of Job 41 from their connection with the crocodile, and to transpose them, referring them to man, so as to...
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 beholdeth all high [things] ,.... Or "who beholdeth all high [things]"; even he that made leviathan, that is, God, as the above interpreter: he does that which Job was bid to do, and could not; b...
He beholdeth all high [things]: he [is] a king over all the children of pride. Ver. 34. He beholdeth all high things ] As far below him (be they never so excellent) both for bulk of body and stout...
He beholdeth all high things He looks about him with contempt and disdain on every thing he sees. He does not turn his back upon, or hide his face from, the highest and mightiest creatures, but beh...
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...
He doth not turn his back upon nor hide his face from the highest and proudest creatures, but looks upon them with a bold and undaunted countenance, as being without any fear of them, as was now said...
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
Exodus 5:2 ; Ezekiel 29:3 ; Isaiah 28:1 ; Job 26:12 ; Psalms 73:10 ; Psalms 73:6 ; Revelation 12:1-3 ; Revelation 13:2 ; Revelation 20:2 ; Revelation 20:3
King, &c. — He can tame both the behemoth and leviathan, as strong and stout — hearted as they are. This discourse concerning them was brought in, to prove that it is God only, who can look upo...