Job 41:32

32 Deja en su estela agua reluciente
que hace que el mar parezca blanco.

Job 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.

Job 41:32 In-Context

30 Su vientre está cubierto de escamas tan afiladas como el vidrio;
escarba el suelo cuando se arrastra por el barro.

31 »El Leviatán hace hervir el agua con su sacudimiento;
agita las profundidades como una olla de ungüento.

32 Deja en su estela agua reluciente
que hace que el mar parezca blanco.

33 En la tierra es sin igual,
ninguna otra criatura es tan intrépida.

34 De todas las criaturas, es la más orgullosa.
Es el rey de las bestias».