Yuēbó 41:32

32 Tā xíng de lù suíhòu fāguāng , líng rén xiǎng shēn yuān rútóng bái fā .

Yuēbó 41:32 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:32

He maketh a path to shine after him
Upon the sea, by raising a white from upon it, through its vehement motion as it passes along, or by the spermaceti it casts out and leaves behind it. It is said ^F19 that whales will cut and plough the sea in such a manner, as to leave a shining glittering path behind them, the length of a German mile, which is three of ours;

[one] would think the deep [to be] hoary;
to be old and grey headed, or white like the hair of the head of an old man, a figure often used of the sea by poets ^F20; and hence "Nereus" ^F21, which is the sea, is said to be an old man, because the froth in the waves of it looks like white hair.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Vid. Scheuchzer. ibid. (vol. 4.) p. 853.
F20 (polihv alov) , Homer. Iliad. 1. v. 350. (polihv yalasshv) , Iliad. 4. v. 248. "incanuit unda", Catullus.
F21 Phurnutus de Natura Deorum, p. 63.

Yuēbó 41:32 In-Context

30 Tā dù fù xià rú jiān wǎ piān , tā rú dīng bà jīngguò yū ní .

31 Tā shǐ shēn yuān kāi gún rú guō , shǐ yáng hǎi rú guō zhōng de gāo yóu .

32 Tā xíng de lù suíhòu fāguāng , líng rén xiǎng shēn yuān rútóng bái fā .

33 Zaì dì shang méiyǒu xiàng tā zào de nàyàng , wú suǒ jùpà .

34 Fán gāo dà de , tā wú bù miǎoshì . tā zaì jiāoào de shuǐzú shang zuò wáng .