Job 41:7

Fill — A whale's you may: but the skin of a crocodile is so hard that an iron or spear will not pierce it.

Related Commentaries of Job 41:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 h...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? His hide is not penetrable, as that of fish.
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...
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...
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....
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 f...
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 bo...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 seve...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. He...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
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 anot...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Description of Leviathan. B. C. 1520. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 thi...
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 ARA...
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,...
The Biblical Illustrator

Canst thou draw out Leviathan? Behemoth and leviathan The description of the “behemoth” in the preceding chapter and the “leviathan” here sugge...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job's Weakness when Compared with the Strength of the Crocodile
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons, in trying to kill him with a spear or dart? or his head with fish-spears, in hunting him with a harpoon...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 41:26-29

⁷ Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

Related Commentaries of Job 41:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 41:7