Job 41:1 "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?
Job 41:2 "Can you put a rope in his nose Or pierce his jaw with a hook?
Job 41:3 "Will he make many supplications to you, Or will he speak to you soft words?
Job 41:4 "Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him for a servant forever?
Job 41:5 "Will you play with him as with a bird, Or will you bind him for your maidens?
Job 41:6 "Will the traders bargain over him? Will they divide him among the merchants?
Job 41:7 "Can you fill his skin with harpoons, Or his head with fishing spears?
Job 41:8 "Lay your hand on him; Remember the battle; you will not do it again!
Job 41:9 "Behold, your expectation is false; Will you be laid low even at the sight of him?
Job 41:10 "No one is so fierce that he dares to arouse him; Who then is he that can stand before Me?
Job 41:11 "Who has given to Me that I should repay {him?} {Whatever} is under the whole heaven is Mine.
Job 41:12 "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Or his mighty strength, or his orderly frame.
Job 41:13 "Who can strip off his outer armor? Who can come within his double mail?
Job 41:14 "Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth there is terror.
Job 41:15 "{His} strong scales are {his} pride, Shut up {as with} a tight 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 clasp each other and cannot be separated.
Up to this point I have read commentaries that suggest this is a sea-creature, possibly a pleisiosaur, but the following verses have me thinking otherwise...
Job 41:18 "His sneezes flash forth light, And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
Job 41:19 "Out of his mouth go burning torches; Sparks of fire leap forth.
Job 41:20 "Out of his nostrils smoke goes forth As {from} a boiling pot and {burning} rushes.
Job 41:21 "His breath kindles coals, And a flame goes forth from his mouth. Job 41:22 "In his neck lodges strength, And dismay leaps before him.
Job 41:23 "The folds of his flesh are joined together, Firm on him and immovable.
Job 41:24 "His heart is as hard as a stone, Even as hard as a lower millstone.
Job 41:25 "When he raises himself up, the mighty fear; Because of the crashing they are bewildered.
Fire-breathing dragon? He can light coal on fire...and we need lighter fluid!
Before Job was asked if he could draw him out with a fish hook, as if the creature was in the sea, but in the following we read about the sword, the spear, the javelin...weapons used primarily for land animals. Perhaps the Scriptures are talking about two creatures? A sea leviathan and a land leviathan?
Job 41:26 "The sword that reaches him cannot avail, Nor the spear, the dart or the javelin.
Job 41:27 "He regards iron as straw, Bronze as rotten wood.
Job 41:28 "The arrow cannot make him flee; Slingstones are turned into stubble for him.
Job 41:29 "Clubs are regarded as stubble; He laughs at the rattling of the javelin.
This next part is interesting..his underpants are potsherds? He's got spikes on his underside? And now we're back to the sea..maybe dragons lived in the sea? as well as in caves as pictured in storybooks?
Job 41:30 "His underparts are {like} sharp potsherds; He spreads out {like} a threshing sledge on the mire.
Job 41:31 "He makes the depths boil like a pot; He makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
Job 41:32 "Behind him he makes a wake to shine; One would think the deep to be gray-haired.
Job 41:33 "Nothing on earth is like him, One made without fear.
Job 41:34 "He looks on everything that is high; He is king over all the sons of pride."
It's just amazing what can be discovered in His Word!!!
Angie
