Job 41:9

9 "Look, {the hope of capturing it} is false. Will one be hurled down even at its sight?

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.

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Job 41:9 In-Context

7 Can you fill its kin with harpoons or its head with fish spears?

8 Lay your hands on it; think about [the] battle--you will not do [it] again!

9 "Look, {the hope of capturing it} is false. Will one be hurled down even at its sight?

10 [Is] it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who [then] [is] he [who] would stand {before it}?

11 Who has come to confront me, that I should repay [him]? Under all the heavens, {it belongs to me}.

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "its hope"