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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Job 41 - Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?

I don't want to read too much into this passage.
There appear allusions to both the dragon, perhaps to Satan himself, 

Since Satan is often represented as the force behind evil powers...which may include.
Job 41:34  He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

We certainly know Satan plays a key role in this book in the life of Job.

But perhaps even to the representations of the fearsome power of our God, which are often spoken of more directly in other scripture verses.

Old John Gill writes...

...all the ancient Christian writers make leviathan to be; and Satan is expressly called the dragon in Rev 12:3. So Suidas (m) says, the devil is called a dragon in Job. But be the leviathan what it may, it certainly is an illustrious instance of the power of God in making it; and therefore Job and every other man ought to submit to him that made it, in all things, and be humble under his mighty hand; owning freely, that it is his right hand, and his only, and not man's, that can save, either in a temporal or spiritual sense; for which end this and the behemoth are instanced in.

As does Matthew Henry...

II. Thence he infers how unable he was to contend with the Almighty. None is so fierce, none so fool-hardy, that he dares to stir up the leviathan (Job 41:10), it being known that he will certainly be too hard for them; and who then is able to stand before God, either to impeach and arraign his proceedings or to out-face the power of his wrath? If the inferior creatures that are put under the feet of man, and over whom he has dominion, keep us in awe thus, how terrible must the majesty of our great Lord be, who has a sovereign dominion over us and against whom man has been so long in rebellion! Who can stand before him when once he is angry?

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Job 41:1  Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

Job 41:2  Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

Job 41:3  Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

Job 41:4  Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

Job 41:5  Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

Job 41:6  Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

Job 41:7  Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

Job 41:8  Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

Job 41:9  Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

Job 41:10  None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

Job 41:11  Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

Job 41:12  I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

Job 41:13  Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

Job 41:14  Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

Job 41:15  His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

Job 41:16  One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

Job 41:17  They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

Job 41:18  By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

Job 41:19  Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

Job 41:20  Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

Job 41:21  His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

Job 41:22  In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

Job 41:23  The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

Job 41:24  His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

Job 41:25  When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

Job 41:26  The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

Job 41:27  He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

Job 41:28  The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

Job 41:29  Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

Job 41:30  Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

Job 41:31  He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

Job 41:32  He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

Job 41:33  Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

Job 41:34  He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.



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