Job 41:2

2 Qui m'a fait des avances, et je lui rendrai? Tout ce qui est sous les cieux est à moi.

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.

Job 41:2 In-Context

1 Il n'y a point d'homme si hardi qui l'ose réveiller; et qui se tiendra debout devant moi?
2 Qui m'a fait des avances, et je lui rendrai? Tout ce qui est sous les cieux est à moi.
3 Je ne me tairai pas sur ses membres, sur ses forces, et sur la beauté de sa stature.
4 Qui a soulevé le dessus de son vêtement? Qui est entré dans sa double mâchoire?
5 Qui a ouvert les portes de sa gueule? La terreur est autour de ses dents.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.