--- title: "Job 41 - Study King James Bible with clarkes commentary" description: "Read Job 41 with clarkes commentary commentary. 1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? 2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw t" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/clarkes-commentary/job/41" --- [ Read](/kjv/job/41)[ Commentary](/study/job/41)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/job/41) Audio 1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord *which* thou lettest down?** 2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? 3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft *words* unto thee? 4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? 5 Wilt thou play with him as *with* a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? 6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? 7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? 8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more. 9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not *one* be cast down even at the sight of him? 10 None *is so* fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me? 11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay *him? whatsoever is* under the whole heaven is mine. 12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. 13 Who can discover the face of his garment? *or* who can come *to him* with his double bridle?* 14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth *are* terrible round about. 15 *His* scales *are his* pride, shut up together *as with* a close seal.* 16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. 17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered. 18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes *are* like the eyelids of the morning. 19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, *and* sparks of fire leap out. 20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as *out* of a seething pot or caldron. 21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth. 22 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.* 23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.* 24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether *millstone*. 25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves. 26 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.* 27 He esteemeth iron as straw, *and* brass as rotten wood. 28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble. 29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear. 30 Sharp stones *are* under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.* 31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. 32 He maketh a path to shine after him; *one* would think the deep *to be* hoary. 33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.* 34 He beholdeth all high *things:* he *is* a king over all the children of pride. [Job 40](/study/job/40) [Job 42](/study/job/42) ## Commentary To verse 1 Verse [Job 41:1](/kjv/job/41/1). ***Canst thou draw out leviathan*** — We come now to a subject not less perplexing than that over which we have passed, and a subject on which learned men are less agreed than on the preceding. What is *leviathan*? The Hebrew word לויתן *livyathan* is retained by the Vulgate and the Chaldee. The Septuagint have, Αξεις δε δρακοντα; "*Canst* thou draw out the DRAGON?" The Syriac and Arabic have the same. A species of *whale* has been supposed to be the creature in question; but the description suits no animal but the *crocodile* or alligator; and it is not necessary to seek elsewhere. The crocodile is a natural inhabitant of the Nile, and other Asiatic and African rivers. It is a creature of enormous voracity and strength, as well as fleetness in swimming. He will attack the largest animals, and even men, with the most daring impetuosity. In proportion to his size he has the largest mouth of all monsters. The upper jaw is armed with *forty* sharp strong teeth, and the under jaw with *thirty-eight*. He is clothed with such a coat of mail as cannot be pierced, and can in every direction resist a musket-ball. The Hebrew לוי *levi* תן ten signifies the *coupled dragon*; but what this is we know not, unless the crocodile be meant. ***With a hook*** — That crocodiles were caught with a *baited hook*, at least one species of crocodile, we have the testimony of *Herodotus*, lib. ii., c. 70: Επεαν νωτον συος δελεασῃ περι αγκιστρον, μετιει ες μεσον τον ποταμον, κ. τ. λ. "They take the back or chine of a swine, and bait a hook with it, and throw it into the midst of the river; and the fisherman stands at some distance on the shore holding a young pig, which he irritates, in order to make it squeak. When the crocodile hears this he immediately makes towards the sound; and, finding the baited hook in his way, swallows it, and is then drawn to land, when they dash mud into his eyes, and blind him; after which he is soon despatched." In this way it seems *leviathan* was *drawn out by a* *hook*: but it was undoubtedly both *a difficult* and *dangerous* work, and but barely practicable In the way in which *Herodotus* relates the matter. ***Or his tongue with a cord*** — It is probable that, when the animal was taken, they had some method of casting a noose round his *tongue*, when opening his mouth; or piercing it with some barbed instrument. *Thevenot* says that in order to take the crocodile they dig holes on the banks of the river, and cover them with sticks. The crocodiles fall into these, and cannot get out. They leave them there for several days without food, and then let down nooses which they pitch on their jaws, and thus draw them out. 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