Job 41:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him? ”

• Job 41:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Behold, the hope of him is in vain - That is, the hope of taking him is vain. Shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him? - So formidable is his appearance, that the courage of him w...

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• Job 41:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Behold, (p) the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be cast down even at the sight of him? (p) That is, that trusts to take him.

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• Job 41:9 - 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 41:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.

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• Job 41:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him? Behold, the hope - If thou miss thy first advantage, there is no hope afterwards: the very sight of this ter...

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• Job 41:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Lay thine hand upon him, &c.— Be sure thou strikest home; mind thy blow; rely not on a second stroke, Job 41:9 . See, he is deceived in his expectation: will he also faint away at the sight...

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• Job 41:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him? Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him? The hope -...

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• Job 41:9 - 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 41:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Behold the hope of him is in vain — i.e. , the hope of the rash man who would venture to attack him: at the sight of him, i.e., the infuriated crocodile.

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• Job 41:9 - 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 41:9 - 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 41:9 - 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 41:9 - 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 41:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Behold, the hope of him is in vain ,.... Of getting the mastery over him, or of taking him; and yet both crocodiles and whales have been taken; nor is the taking of them to be despaired of; but it s...

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• Job 41:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be cast down even at the sight of him? Ver. 9. Behold, the hope of him is in vain ] Heb. is lying. A man may promise himseff or others to take t...

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• Job 41:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Behold, the hope of him is in vain That is, the hope of taking, or conquering him. Shall not one be cast down, even at the sight of him? Not only the fight, but the sight of him is most frightful...

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• Job 41:9 - 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 41:9 - 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 41:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The hope of him; either, 1. Of the fish, i.e. the hope of taking or conquering him. Or rather, 2. Of the man who laid hands upon him, as hoping to take him by force, but in vain. Shall not; t...

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• Job 41:9 - 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 41:9 - 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 41:9 - 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 41:9 - 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 41:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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

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• Job 41:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 3:11 ; Deuteronomy 28:34 ; Isaiah 28:19 ; Luke 21:11

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• Job 41:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Hope — The hope of taking or conquering him.

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