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41:1 “Can you pull <04900> in Leviathan <03882> with a hook <02443>, and tie down <08257> its tongue <03956> with a rope <02256>? 41:2 Can you put <07760> a cord <0100> through its nose <0639>, or pierce <05344> its jaw <03895> with a hook <02336>? 41:3 Will it make numerous <07235> supplications <08469> to <0413> you, will <0518> it speak <01696> to <0413> you with tender <07390> words? 41:4 Will it make <03772> a pact <01285> with <05973> you, so you could take <03947> it as your slave <05650> for life <05769>? 41:5 Can you play <07832> with it, like a bird <06833>, or tie <07194> it on a leash for your girls <05291>? 41:6 Will partners <02271> bargain <03738> for <05921> it? Will they divide <02673> it up among <0996> the merchants <03669>? 41:7 Can you fill <04390> its hide <05785> with harpoons <07905> or its head <07218> with fishing <01709> spears <06767>? 41:8 If you lay <07760> your hand <03709> on <05921> it, you will remember <02142> the fight <04421>, and you will never <0408> do it again <03254>! 41:9 See <02005>, his expectation <08431> is wrong <03576>, he is laid low <02904> even <01571> at the sight <04758> of it. 41:10 Is it not <03808> fierce <0393> when <03588> it is awakened <05782>? Who <04310> is he, then, who <01931> can stand <03320> before <06440> it? 41:11 (Who <04310> has confronted <06923> me that I should repay <07999>? Everything <03605> under <08478> heaven <08064> belongs to me <01931>!) 41:12 I will not <03808> keep silent <02790> about its limbs <0905>, and the extent <01697> of its might <01369>, and the grace <02433> of its arrangement <06187>. 41:13 Who <04310> can uncover <01540> its outer <06440> covering <03830>? Who <04310> can penetrate <0935> to the inside <03718> of its armor <07448>? 41:14 Who <04310> can open <06605> the doors <01817> of its mouth <06440>? Its teeth <08127> all around <05439> are fearsome <0367>. 41:15 Its back <01346> has rows <0650> of shields <04043>, shut up <05462> closely together as with a seal <02368>; 41:16 each <0259> one <0259> is so close <05066> to the next that no <03808> air <07307> can come <0935> between <0996> them. 41:17 They lock tightly <01692> together, one to the next <0251> <0376>; they cling <03920> together and cannot <03808> be separated <06504>. 41:18 Its snorting <05846> throws out flashes <01984> of light <0216>; its eyes <05869> are like the red glow <06079> of dawn <07837>. 41:19 Out of its mouth <06310> go <01980> flames <03940>, sparks <03590> of fire <0784> shoot forth <04422>! 41:20 Smoke <06227> streams from its nostrils <05156> as from a boiling <05301> pot <01731> over burning rushes <0100>. 41:21 Its breath <05315> sets <03857> coals <01513> ablaze <03857> and a flame <03851> shoots <03318> from its mouth <06310>. 41:22 Strength <05797> lodges <03885> in its neck <06677>, and despair <01670> runs <01750> before <06440> it. 41:23 The folds <04651> of its flesh <01320> are tightly joined <01692>; they are firm <03332> on <05921> it, immovable <04131> <01077>.

• Job 41:1-34 -- The Description of Leviathan

• Leviathan

  [ebd] a transliterated Hebrew word (livyathan), meaning "twisted," "coiled." In Job 3:8, Revised Version, and marg. of Authorized Version, it denotes the dragon which, according to Eastern tradition, is an enemy of light; in 41:1 ...
  [isbe] LEVIATHAN - le-vi'-a-than (liwyathan (Job 41:1-34), from [~lawah, "to fold"; compare Arabic name of the wry neck, Iynx torquilla, abu-luwa, from kindred lawa, "to bend"): (1) The word "leviathan" also occurs in Isa 27:1, whe...
  [smith] (jointed monster) occurs five times in the text of the Authorized Version, and once in the margin of (Job 3:8) where the text has "mourning." In the Hebrew Bible the word livyathan , which is, with the foregoing exception, al...
  [nave] LEVIATHAN Possibly a crocodile, Job 41; Psa. 104:26. The crooked serpent, Isa. 27:1. Figurative Psa. 74:14. See: Dragon.
  

• God

  [nave] GOD. List of Sub-Topics Miscellany; Unclassified Scriptures Relating to; Access to; Compassion of; Creator; Creator of Mankind; Eternity of; Faithfulness of; Fatherhood of; Favor of; Foreknowledge of; Glory of; Goodness of...
  

• Euthanasia

  [nave] EUTHANASIA Euthanasia is an attempt to prevent painful, excessive or prolonged death. It may be passive (stop treatment) or direct acts aimed at terminating life (active). The latter is wrong because it does not see God, as ...
  

• Condescension of God

  [nave] CONDESCENSION OF GOD In reasoning with his creatures: Sets forth his reasons for sending the flood, Gen. 6:11-13. Enters into covenant with Abraham, Gen. 15:1-21; 18:1-22. Indulges Abraham's intercession for Sodom, Gen. 18...
  

• NIGHT-MONSTER

  [isbe] NIGHT-MONSTER - nit'-mon-ster (lilith; Septuagint onokentauros; Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) lamia): I. THE ACCEPTED TRANSLATION 1. Professor Rogers' Statement 2. Exception to the Statement II. FOLKLORE IN TH...
  

• Animals

  [nave] ANIMALS Creation of, Gen. 1:24, 25; 2:19; Jer. 27:5. Food of, Gen. 1:30. Named, Gen. 2:20. Ordained as food for mankind, Gen. 9:2, 3; Lev. 11:3, 9, 21, 22; Deut. 14:4-6, 9, 11, 20. God's care of, Gen. 9:9, 10; Deut. 25:4...
  

• Job

  [nave] JOB 1. A man who dwelt in Uz, Job 1:1. Righteousness of, Job 1:1, 5, 8; 2:3; Ezek. 14:14, 20. Riches of, Job 1:3. Trial of, by affliction of Satan, Job 1:13-19; 2:7-10. Fortitude of, Job 1:20-22; 2:10; Jas. 5:11. Visite...
  

• HOOK

  [ebd] (1.) Heb. hah, a "ring" inserted in the nostrils of animals to which a cord was fastened for the purpose of restraining them (2 Kings 19:28; Isa. 37:28, 29; Ezek. 29:4; 38:4). "The Orientals make use of this contrivance for ...
  [isbe] HOOK - hook: (1) chakkah, is rendered "fishhook" in Job 41:1 the Revised Version (British and American) (the King James Version "hook"). the Revised Version (British and American) is correct here and should have used the sam...
  

• Fish

  [isbe] FISH - (dagh, daghah, da'gh; ichthus, ichthudion, opsarion): 1. Natural History: Fishes abound in the inland waters of Palestine as well as the Mediterranean. They are often mentioned or indirectly referred to both in the Ol...
  [nave] FISH Creation of, Gen. 1:20-22. Appointed for food, Gen. 9:2, 3. Clean and unclean, Lev. 11:9-12; Deut. 14:9, 10. Taken with nets, Eccl. 9:12; Hab. 1:14-17; Matt. 4:21; Luke 5:2-6; John 21:6-8; hooks, Isa. 19:8; Amos 4:2;...
  

• RUSH

  [isbe] RUSH - (1) (gome'; papuros, "bulrushes," margin "papyrus" (Ex 2:3); "rush," margin "papyrus" (Job 8:11); "papyrus," the King James Version "rush" (Isa 18:2); "rushes" (Isa 35:7)): This is almost certainly the famous papyrus,...
  

• CALDRON

  [isbe] CALDRON - kol'-drun (the rendering of qallachath, cir, dudh 'aghmon) : Qallachath is found only in 1 Sam 2:14; Mic 3:3. It is a pot for cooking, of undefined size and characteristics, in the former passage for sanctuary use,...
  [smith] a vessel for boiling flesh, for either ceremonial or domestic use. (1 Samuel 2:14; 2 Chronicles 35:13; Job 41:20; Micah 3:3)
  

• FLAKE

  [isbe] FLAKE - flak (mappal, a word of uncertain meaning): It is used in the sense of "refuse (husks) of the wheat" in Am 8:6. With regard to the body we find it used in Job 41:23 in the description of leviathan (the crocodile): "T...
  

• Fish-hooks

  [ebd] were used for catching fish (Amos 4:2; comp. Isa. 37:29; Jer. 16:16; Ezek. 29:4; Job. 41:1, 2; Matt. 17:27).
  

• FISHHOOK

  [isbe] FISHHOOK - fish'-hook (cir dughah, chakkah): The word "fishhooks" occurs but twice in the American Standard Revised Version (Job 41:1; Am 4:2). In other passages the word hook or "angle" is applied to this instrument for fis...
  

• KETTLE

  [isbe] KETTLE - ket'-'l: In English Versions of the Bible only in 1 Sam 2:14 for dudh, "a vessel for cooking." The same word in 2 Ch 35:13 is rendered "caldrons," and in Job 41:20 (Hebrew 12), "pot." Ps 81:6 (Hebrew 7) (the King Ja...
  [smith] a vessel for culinary or sacrificial purposes. (1 Samuel 2:14) The Hebrew word is also rendered "basket" in (Jeremiah 24:2) "caldron" in (2 Chronicles 35:13) and "pot" in (Job 41:20)
  

• SNEEZE

  [isbe] SNEEZE - snez (zorer, Pho`el-form zarar): "The child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes" (2 Ki 4:35). "Sneezing," better "snorting," is found in the description of Leviathan (the crocodile): "His sneezings (`...
  

• SCALES

  [isbe] SCALES - skalz (1) qasqeseth "fish-scales"; (2) meghinnah, maghen, "scales of the crocodile"; (3) lepis, with verb lepizo "scale away" (Tobit 3:17; 11:13)): (1) The first Hebrew word qasqeseth means the imbricated scales of ...
  

• POT

  [isbe] POT - pot: A term used as the translation of a number of Hebrew and Greek words whose fundamental meaning seems to describe them as intended for the most part to hold liquid or semi-liquid substances, but the pots of Ex 27:3...
  

• Thorn

  [nave] THORN The ground cursed with, Gen. 3:18. Used as an awl, Job 41:2; for fuel, Psa. 58:9; 118:12; Eccl. 7:6. Hedges formed of, Hos. 2:6; Mic. 7:4. Crown of, mockingly put on Jesus' head, Matt. 27:29; Mark 15:17; John 19:2, ...
  

• NOSE; NOSTRILS

  [isbe] NOSE; NOSTRILS - noz, nos'-trilz ('aph, "nose," nechirayim, dual of nechir, "nostrils"): The former expression ('aph from 'anph, like Arabic 'anf) is often translated "face" (which see under the word) in the English Versions...
  

• Behemoth and Leviathan

  

• Romans 8:18 and 1Pet chapter 4 seem to imply Christians should rejoice in our suffering because of the sympathy towards the suffering of Jesus,
  The suffering I have experienced does not compare to what you have described. The problem of pain is one that requires much more than a glib response. Indeed, the answer is probably the content of a book -- one...

Isaiah 27:1; Job 41:21; Symbolic Of Satan

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