Text -- Job 41:19 (NET)

41:19 Out of its mouth go flames, sparks of fire shoot forth!

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 41:19

¹ sn For the animal, the image is that of pent-up breath with water in a hot steam jet coming from its mouth, like a stream of fire in the rays of the sun. The language is hyperbolic, probably to reflect the pagan ideas of the dragon of the deep in a polemical way – they feared it as a fire breathing monster, but in reality it might have been a steamy crocodile.