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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 ships go,{HR}This leviathan thou hast made 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 piercing serpent, and leviathan, the crooked serpent; and he will 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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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• 1Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle,{HR}Or, with a cord thou lettest down, his tongue?
 2Dost thou put a rush in his nose,{HR}Or bore his jaw with a thorn?
 3Will he multiply supplications to thee?{HR}Will he speak to thee tender things?
 4Will he make a covenant with thee?{HR}Wilt thou take him [for] ever as a slave?
 5Wilt thou sport with him as a bird, and bind him for thy girls?
 6Let partners bargain for him — divide him among traders!
 7Dost thou fill his skin with pikes, or his head with fish-spears?
 8Put thine hand on him — remember the battle —{HR}Thou wilt not do it again:
 9Behold, his hope proveth false.{HR}Even at the sight of him is not [one] cast down?
 10None is so fierce as to provoke him.{HR}And who [is] he that maketh a stand before me?
 11Who first gave to me, and I must repay?{HR}Under the whole heaven it [is] mine.
 12I will not be silent about his parts,{HR}And the matter of his powers, and the beauty of his structure.
 13Who hath uncovered the face of his garment?{HR}Into his double jaws who entereth in?
 14The doors of his face, who hath opened?{HR}Round about his teeth [is] terror;
 15A pride [are] the concave shields, shut up [as] a close seal;
 16One to another they join, and air entereth not between them;
 17One to another they adhere, they hold together, and separate not.
 18His sneezing flasheth forth light,{HR}And his eyes [are] as eyelids of the dawn.
 19Out of his mouth proceed torches, sparks of fire escape.
 20Out of his nostrils issue the smoke,{HR}As out of a seething pot and caldron.
 21His breath kindleth coals,{HR}And a flame cometh out from his mouth.
 22In his neck strength lodgeth, and before him danceth terror.
 23The flakes of his flesh are fitted close together;{HR}They are fixed fast on him, immovable.
 24His heart [is] firm as a stone, as a nether [millstone].
 25At his rising up the mighty tremble;{HR}From terror they miss their mark.
 26The sword of his overtaker doth not hold, spear, mace, nor lance;
 27He reckoneth iron as straw, copper as rotten wood;
 28The bolt (child) of the bow causeth him not to flee;{HR}Sling-stones are changed into stubble for him;
 29Clubs are reckoned as stubble;{HR}He laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.
 30His under parts [are] the sharpest of shards;{HR}He spreadeth a threshing-roller on the mire.
 31He maketh the deep boil as a pot,{HR}He maketh the sea like a pot of ointment;
 32After him he maketh the path to shine —{HR}One would think the deep hoary.
 33There is not on the dust dominion over him,{HR}Who is made to be without dread;
 34He looketh on all that is high,{HR}He [is] king over all the sons 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 cursers of days curse it,{HR}Who are prepared to rouse leviathan. (Job 3:8)
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Job 3•  (Job 3)
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Psa. 74:14• 14Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan,{HR}Thou gavest it as food to a people dwelling in the wilderness. (Psa. 74:14)
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Psa. 104:26• 26There ships go,{HR}This leviathan thou hast made 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 piercing serpent, and leviathan, the crooked serpent; and he will 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?"

W. Kelly Translation

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Dost thou draw leviathana with an angle,{HR}Or, with a cord thou lettest down, his tongue?

WK Translation Notes

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The Leviathan here described seems to be beyond doubt, not the dolphin or the whale, as some learned men have argued, but the crocodile.