Job 41:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? ”

• Job 41:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Shall thy companions make a banquet of him? - This is one of the “vexed passages” about which there has been much difference of opinion. Gesenius renders it, “Do the companions (“i. e.” the fishe...

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• Job 41:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 41:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? Shall thy companions make a banquet - Canst thou and thy friends feast on him as ye were wont to do on a camel sac...

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• Job 41:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Shall the companions make a banquet of him, &c.— Will the companies of merchants drive a bargain for him? shall he be divided among the merchants? Heath. Houbigant follows our translation: se...

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• Job 41:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? Companions - rather, partners (namely, in fishing). Make a banquet. The parallelism rather supports Um...

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• Job 41:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 41:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Shall the companions make a banquet of him? — Or, Shall the bands of fishermen make traffic of him? or, dig a pit for him? — the former suiting the parallelism better.

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• Job 41:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Job 41:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Job 41:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Job 41:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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...

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• Job 41:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Shall thy companions make a banquet of him ?.... The fishermen that join together in catching fish, shall they make a feast for joy at taking the leviathan? which suggests that he is not to be taken...

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• Job 41:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? Ver. 6. Shall the companions make a banquet of him? ] The Cetarii, whale fishers, who usually go out in compani...

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• Job 41:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Job 41:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 41:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Description of Leviathan. B. C. 1520.       1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? or hi...

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• Job 41:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Thy companions; thy friends or assistants in the taking of him. Make a banquet of him, i.e. feed upon him. Or, for him , i.e. for joy that thou hast taken him. Shall they part him among the mer...

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• Job 41:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Job 41:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Job 41:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Job 41:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Job 41:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job's Weakness when Compared with the Strength of the Crocodile

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• Job 41:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Judges 14:11

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