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Job 41:2

Listen to Job 41:2
2 Wie heeft Mij voorgekomen, dat Ik hem zou vergelden? Wat onder den gansen hemel is, is het Mijne.

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 Niemand is zo koen, dat hij hem opwekken zou; wie is dan hij, die zich voor Mijn aangezicht stellen zou?
2 Wie heeft Mij voorgekomen, dat Ik hem zou vergelden? Wat onder den gansen hemel is, is het Mijne.
3 Ik zal zijn leden niet verzwijgen, noch het verhaal zijner sterkte, noch de bevalligheid zijner gestaltenis.
4 Wie zou het opperste zijns kleeds ontdekken? Wie zou met zijn dubbelen breidel hem aankomen?
5 Wie zou de deuren zijns aangezichts opendoen? Rondom zijn tanden is verschrikking.
The Dutch Staten Vertaling translation is in the public domain.

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