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Job 41:2

Listen to Job 41:2
2 Mettras-tu un jonc dans ses narines? Lui perceras-tu la mâchoire avec un crochet?

Job 41:2 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:2

Canst thou put an hook into his nose?
&c.] Or a rush, that is, a rope made of rushes; for of such ropes were made, as Pliny F7 affirms;

or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
as men do herrings, or such like small fish, for the convenience of carrying them, or hanging them up to dry; the whale is not to be used in such a manner: but the Tentyritae, a people in Egypt, great enemies to crocodiles, had methods of taking thorn in nets, and of binding and bridling them, and carrying them as they pleased F8.


FOOTNOTES:

F7 Nat. Hist. l. 19. c. 2.
F8 Strabo. Geograph. l. 17. p. 560. Aelian. de Animal. l. 10. c. 21. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 25.
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Job 41:2 In-Context

1 Prendras-tu le crocodile à l'hameçon? Saisiras-tu sa langue avec une corde?
2 Mettras-tu un jonc dans ses narines? Lui perceras-tu la mâchoire avec un crochet?
3 Te pressera-t-il de supplication? Te parlera-t-il d'une voix douce?
4 Fera-t-il une alliance avec toi, Pour devenir à toujours ton esclave?
5 Joueras-tu avec lui comme avec un oiseau? L'attacheras-tu pour amuser tes jeunes filles?
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