“ Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? ”
Will he make a covenant with thee? - That is, will he submit himself to thee, and enter into a compact to serve thee? Such a compact was made by those who agreed to serve another; and the idea he...
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take (n) him for a servant for ever? (n) To do your business, and be at your command?
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 a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? Will he make a covenant - Canst thou hire him as thou wouldst a servant, who is to be so attached to thy family as to hav...
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? Can he be tamed for domestic use? (so Job 39:10-12 .)
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...
A servant for ever. — The crocodile being probably quite untameable.
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 a covenant with thee ?.... To live in friendship or servitude, as follows; wilt thou take him for a servant for ever ? oblige him to serve thee for life, or reduce him to perpetual bo...
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? Ver. 4. Will he make a covenant with thee? ] And compound, where he cannot conquer. Wilt thou take him for a servan...
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...
A covenant, to wit, to do thee faithful service, as the next words explain it. Canst thou bring him into bondage, and force him to serve thee?
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
1 Kings 20:31-34 ; Deuteronomy 15:17 ; Exodus 21:6 ; Genesis 1:28 ; Psalms 8:5 ; Psalms 8:6