Psalms 18:8
Out of his mouth go burning lamps - The word “lamps” here is probably used to denote torches, or fire-brands. The animal is here described as in...
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...
Job 40:15 to Job 41:34 . Behemoth and Leviathan. Most scholars regard this passage as a later addition to the poem. The point of Job 40:8-14 i...
Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. Out of his mouth go burning lamps - Dr. Young, in his paraphrase, has a sensible no...
Out of his mouth go burning lamps, &c.— This is nearer the truth, says Dr. Young, than at first view may be imagined. The crocodile, according...
Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. Burning lamps - torches: namely, in respiring ( Job 41:18 ) seem to go out.
The Second Speech of the Almighty (concluded) The second great creature, the Crocodile (with which the 'leviathan' is generally identified) is now...
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...
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....
Leviathan is almost certainly the crocodile, and there is the playfulness of a great tenderness in the suggestions Jehovah makes to Job about these f...
(11) В¶ Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine. (12) I will not conceal his parts, nor his powe...
Out of his mouth go burning lamps, [and] sparks of fire leap out. Which, though hyperbolical expressions, have some foundation for them in the latt...
Out of his mouth go burning lamps, [and] sparks of fire leap out. Ver. 19. Out of his mouth go burning lamps ] This and those that follow are all...
Out of his mouth go burning lamps “This,” says Dr. Young, “is nearer truth than at first view may be imagined. The crocodile, says the naturalists,...
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 anot...
11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine. 12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his...
i.e. His breathings and blowings are very hot, or flaming, as the following verses explain this. This also may seem better to agree to the crocodile,...
Notes Job 41:1 . “ Canst thou draw out Leviathan with a hook .” The term “Leviathan” (לִוְיָתָן) rendered here by the SEPTUAGINT, SYRIAC, and ARA...
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,...
Canst thou draw out Leviathan? Behemoth and leviathan The description of the “behemoth” in the preceding chapter and the “leviathan” here sugge...
EXPOSITION Job 41:1-18 The crowning description of a natural marvel—the "leviathan," or crocodile—is now given, and with an elaboration to...
Job's Weakness when Compared with the Strength of the Crocodile
Out of his mouth go burning lamps, streams of water shining like torches, and sparks of fire leap out.
Lamps — This also better agrees with the crocodile, which breathes like the river — horse, of which ancient authors affirm, that his nostrils are v...
19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.