He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
Iron ... brass - namely, weapons.
He esteemeth iron as straw - He regards instruments made of iron and brass as if they were straw or rotten wood. That is, they make no impression...
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...
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...
He esteemeth iron as straw ,.... You may as well cast a straw at him as a bar of iron; it will make no impression on his steeled back, which is as a...
He esteemeth iron as straw, [and] brass as rotten wood. Ver. 27. He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood ] He makes nothing of anythi...
He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood He neither fears, nor feels, the blows of the one more than of the other. The arrow cannot ma...
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...
He neither fears nor feels the blows of the one more than of the other.
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
He esteemeth iron as straw, for it has no effect on his mailed hide, and brass as rotten wood, since it bends and breaks on the shield of his back....
Genesis 24:25 ; Genesis 24:32 ; Job 13:24 ; Job 13:28 ; Job 19:11 ; Job 19:24 ; Job 20:24 ; Job 21:18 ; Job 28:2 ; Job 40:18 ; Job 6:26 ;...
27 He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.