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Job 41:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Canst thou draw out ηleviathanb with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou κlettest down?

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Psa. 104:26• ²⁶There go the ships; there that leviathan, which thou hast formed to play therein. (Psa. 104:26)

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Isa. 27:1• ¹In that day Jehovah, with his sore and great and strong sword, will visit leviathan the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea. (Isa. 27:1)

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i.e. a whale, or, a whirlpool.

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drownest.

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1-34: Of God's great power in the leviathan.

leviathan. See definition 03882

Some think this to be a crocodile but from the description in

Job 41:1‑34• ¹Wilt thou draw out the leviathan with the hook, and press down his tongue with a cord?
²Wilt thou put a rush-rope into his nose, and pierce his jaw with a spike?
³Will he make many supplications unto thee? or will he speak softly unto thee?
⁴Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him as a bondman for ever?
⁵Wilt thou play with him as with a bird, and wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
⁶Shall partners make traffic of him, will they divide him among merchants?
⁷Wilt thou fill his skin with darts, and his head with fish-spears?
⁸Lay thy hand upon him; remember the battle,--do no more!
⁹Lo, hope as to him is belied: is not one cast down even at the sight of him?
¹⁰None is so bold as to stir him up; and who is he that will stand before me?
¹¹Who hath first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
¹²I will not be silent as to his parts, the story of his power, and the beauty of his structure.
¹³Who can uncover the surface of his garment? who can come within his double jaws?
¹⁴Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
¹⁵The rows of his shields are a pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
¹⁶One is so near to another that no air can come between them;
¹⁷They are joined each to its fellow; they stick together, and cannot be sundered.
¹⁸His sneezings flash light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
¹⁹Out of his mouth go forth flames; sparks of fire leap out:
²⁰Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a boiling pot and cauldron.
²¹His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
²²In his neck lodgeth strength, and terror danceth before him.
²³The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are fused upon him, they cannot be moved.
²⁴His heart is firm as a stone, yea, firm as the nether millstone.
²⁵When he raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid: they are beside themselves with consternation.
²⁶If any reach him with a sword, it cannot hold; neither spear, nor dart, nor harpoon.
²⁷He esteemeth iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.
²⁸The arrow will not make him flee; slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
²⁹Clubs are counted as stubble; he laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.
³⁰His under parts are sharp potsherds: he spreadeth a threshing-sledge upon the mire.
³¹He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment;
³²He maketh the path to shine after him: one would think the deep to be hoary.
³³Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
³⁴He beholdeth all high things; he is king over all the proud beasts. (Job 41:1‑34)

this is patently absurd. It appears to be a large fire breathing animal of some sort. Just as the bomardier beetle has an explosion producing mechanism, so the great sea dragon may have an explosive producing mechanism to enable it to be a real fire breathing dragon.

Job 3:8• ⁸Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan; (Job 3:8)

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Job 3• (Job 3)

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Psa. 74:14• ¹⁴*Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert. (Psa. 74:14)

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Psa. 104:26• ²⁶There go the ships; there that leviathan, which thou hast formed to play therein. (Psa. 104:26)

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Isa. 27:1• ¹In that day Jehovah, with his sore and great and strong sword, will visit leviathan the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea. (Isa. 27:1)

lettest down.

Heb. drownest.

• Leviathan—creature-pride fully manifested (chap. 41). (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)

• Most interpreters are agreed that in “leviathan” we have the crocodile of Egypt, which is described in great detail. (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)

• His untamable ferocity (vers. 1-11). (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)

• It will be well to inquire as to the significance of this beast, as compared with the former. That, as we have suggested, typifies the spirit of apostasy from revealed truth, culminating in the Antichrist, the man of sin. This, as arising out of the water, suggests the first Beast of Rev. 13, the great world-power, as seen in the various beasts in Daniel’s vision of chap. 7. If in behemoth we have the spirit of apostasy in religion, in leviathan we see it in civil government. It is the world-power, rather than that of the false prophet. (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)

• It is not only a mighty power that is described, but a power for evil. So Satan is spoken of as the dragon (Rev. 20:2), and as ruler of the earth, through his instrument the ruler of Egypt, it is said of him, “In that day the Lord, with His sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan, the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and He shall slay the dragon that is in the sea” (Isa. 27:1, 12, 13). How remarkable that the world-ruler should thus be spoken of. Can we fail to see the connection with the power of evil seen in our chapter? (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Wilt thou draw out the leviathane with the hook, and press down his tongue with a cordf?

JND Translation Notes

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The crocodile, it would seem, as ch. 3.8.

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Or "and his tongue, with a cord which thou wilt sink?"