Job 41:9

9 Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?

Job 41:9 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:9

Behold, the hope of him is in vain
Of getting the mastery over him, or of taking him; and yet both crocodiles and whales have been taken; nor is the taking of them to be despaired of; but it seems the "orca", or the whale with many teeth, has never been taken and killed F15;

shall not [one] be cast down even at the sight of him?
the sight of a whale is terrible to mariners, lest their ships should be overturned by it; and some have been so frightened at the sight of a crocodile as to lose their senses: and we read of one that was greatly terrified at seeing the shadow of one; and the creature before mentioned is supposed to be much more terrible F16.


FOOTNOTES:

F15 Vid. Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 4. p. 846.
F16 Scheuchzer. ib.

Job 41:9 In-Context

7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
8 If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!
9 Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
10 No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
11 Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
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