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Job 41

Job 41:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Canst thou draw out
mashak (Hebrew #4900)
to draw, used in a great variety of applications (including to sow, to sound, to prolong, to develop, to march, to remove, to delay, to be tall, etc.)
KJV usage: draw (along, out), continue, defer, extend, forbear, X give, handle, make (pro-, sound)long, X sow, scatter, stretch out.
Pronounce: maw-shak'
Origin: a primitive root
ηleviathan
livyathan (Hebrew #3882)
a wreathed animal, i.e. a serpent (especially the crocodile or some other large sea- monster); figuratively, the constellation of the dragon; also as a symbol of Bab.
KJV usage: leviathan, mourning.
Pronounce: liv-yaw-thawn'
Origin: from 3867
b with an hook
chakkah (Hebrew #2443)
a hook (as adhering)
KJV usage: angle, hook.
Pronounce: khak-kaw'
Origin: probably from 2442
? or his tongue
lashown (Hebrew #3956)
also (in plural) feminine lshonah {lesh-o-naw'}; from 3960; the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)
KJV usage: + babbler,bay, + evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.
Pronounce: law-shone'
Origin: or lashon {law-shone'}
with a cord
chebel (Hebrew #2256)
from 2254; a rope (as twisted), especially a measuring line; by implication, a district or inheritance (as measured); or a noose (as of cords); figuratively, a company (as if tied together); also a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin
KJV usage: band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.
Pronounce: kheh'-bel
Origin: or chebel {khay'-bel}
which thou κlettest down
shaqa` (Hebrew #8257)
a primitive root; to subside; by implication, to be overflowed, cease; causatively, to abate, subdue
KJV usage: make deep, let down, drown, quench, sink.
Pronounce: shaw-kah'
Origin: (abbreviated Am. 8:8)
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Psa. 104:26• 26There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein. (Psa. 104:26)
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Isa. 27:1• 1In 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)
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i.e. a whale, or, a whirlpool.
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drownest.

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Cord,
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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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• 1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
 2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
 3Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
 4Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
 5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
 6Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
 7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
 8Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
 9Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
 10None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
 11Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
 12I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
 13Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
 14Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
 15His scales are his 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 one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
 18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
 19Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
 20Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
 21His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
 22In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
 23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
 24His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
 25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
 26The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
 27He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
 28The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
 29Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
 30Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
 31He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
 32He maketh a 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 a king over all the children of pride. (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 raise up their mourning. (Job 3:8)
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Job 3•  (Job 3)
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Psa. 74:14• 14Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. (Psa. 74:14)
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Psa. 104:26• 26There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein. (Psa. 104:26)
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Isa. 27:1• 1In 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)
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?"