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Text -- Job 41:19-34 (NET)
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41:19 Out of its mouth go flames , sparks of fire shoot forth !
41:20 Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning rushes .
41:21 Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth .
41:22 Strength lodges in its neck , and despair runs before it.
41:23 The folds of its flesh are tightly joined ; they are firm on it, immovable .
41:24 Its heart is hard as rock , hard as a lower millstone .
41:25 When it rises up , the mighty are terrified , at its thrashing about they withdraw .
41:26 Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect , nor with the spear , arrow, or dart .
41:27 It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood .
41:28 Arrows do not make it flee ; slingstones become like chaff to it.
41:29 A club is counted as a piece of straw ; it laughs at the rattling of the lance .
41:30 Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds , it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge .
41:31 It makes the deep boil like a cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment ,
41:32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair .
41:33 The likes of it is not on earth , a creature without fear .
41:34 It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud .”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Leviathan |
Euthanasia |
Condescension of God |
Animals |
Job |
God |
NIGHT-MONSTER |
STRAW; STUBBLE |
CALDRON |
HABERGEON |
Mill |
HUNTING |
KETTLE |
POTSHERD |
PALESTINE, 3 |
OINTMENT |
POT |
TORCH |
Deep, The |
Millstone |
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NET Notes: Job 41:19 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....
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NET Notes: Job 41:20 The word “burning” is supplied. The Syriac and Vulgate have “a seething and boiling pot” (reading אֹגֵ...
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NET Notes: Job 41:22 This word, דְּאָבָה (dÿ’avah) is a hapax legomenon. But the verbal root means “to lan...
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NET Notes: Job 41:23 The last clause says “it cannot be moved.” But this part will function adverbially in the sentence.
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NET Notes: Job 41:24 The description of his heart being “hard” means that he is cruel and fearless. The word for “hard” is the word encountered bef...
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NET Notes: Job 41:25 This verse has created all kinds of problems for the commentators. The first part is workable: “when he raises himself up, the mighty [the gods]...
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NET Notes: Job 41:29 The verb is plural, but since there is no expressed subject it is translated as a passive here.
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NET Notes: Job 41:30 Here only the word “sharp” is present, but in passages like Isa 41:15 it is joined with “threshing sledge.” Here and in Amos 1...
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NET Notes: Job 41:31 The idea is either that the sea is stirred up like the foam from beating the ingredients together, or it is the musk-smell that is the point of compar...
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