“ Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? ”
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? - Referring to its thickness and impenetrability. A common method of taking fish is by the spear; but it is here said that the leviathan could not be c...
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...
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? - This refers to some kind of harpoon work, similar to that employed in taking wh...
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? His hide is not penetrable, as that of fish.
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...
(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...
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears ?] This seems not so well to agree with the whale; whose skin, and the several parts of his body, are to be pierced with harp...
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? Ver. 7. Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? ] Harpagonibus. Heb. With thorns; sc. to pull him to the shore? Op...
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? A whale's skin you may; but the skin of a crocodile is so hard that an iron, or spear, will not pierce it. It may, however, be understood also of the wha...
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...
This may be understood, either, 1. Of the whale. And whereas it is objected that the whales at this day are taken in this manner, and therefore this cannot be understood of them; it may be replied,...
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
Job 41:26-29
Fill — A whale's you may: but the skin of a crocodile is so hard that an iron or spear will not pierce it.