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 companies. It was anciently held impossible, and is still perilous, to take the whale and make a banquet of him; as the tongue and some other parts of the whale are good meat. Or, Make a banquet for him; shall they feast those merchants they mean to sell him to, that they may get the better price for him?
Shall they part him among the merchants?] Who might sell him out for sundry uses. See Job 41:1 .