Job 41

Job 41:1

LEviathan] a common name for all great sea-monsters, see Psal. 104. 26. now adayes in the coasts of Arabia, the same is attributed to the Crocodill, or to a kind of it, as in the description made in this chapter, there are many things which are proper to him.

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A ook] or dra a rush through his nose to bring him to hand, as another little fish.

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will bee make] poeticall kind of speeches, as if hee should say, canst thou keep him prisoner, to make him use supplicationsunto thee to avoid death, or thine evill usage of him?

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Bind him] as you doe little birds for children o play with.

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The companions] namely the fishers.

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remember the battell, doe no more] the Italian, thou wilt never more remember the battell, hee will quickly kill thee, so that thou shalt thinke no more of assaling him, or any one else.

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Of him] the Italian, of taking him, namely by wiles, whilest hee is a sleep, for oftentimes hee waketh on a sudden; and overthrowes all that he meets.

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Prevented mee] I am not only almighty, but I am also such a one that none can tax me with injustice: I being bound to no man, and all things being ine, and proceeding only from me.

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I will not] hee returnes to the description of the Leviathan.

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Discover] will any one come neere him, as to a horse in a stable, to take off his cloth, and saddle and bridle him for the service of man?

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His scales] the Italian, his strong bucklers, namely his great and strong scales. This and some other parts of this description, doe fit better with, and are more proper to the Crocodill than any kind of whale.

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His neesings] the great stirre hee keeps with swimming and beating himselfe in the water, maketh the ayre to sparckle, with spinkling up of small drops of broken waves: [the eye-lids of] like uno the dawning of the day, 〈◊〉Iob 3. 9.

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Burning lamps] by his casting up transparent water into the ayre, and by the heate of his breath. A poeticall hyperbole.

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In his neck] namely in that part of his body where the neck of other creatures is, for the whale, crocodill and other fishes have no necks: [and sorrow]rtor of death is his fore runner, to any one that beholdeth it.

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Hee raiseth up himselfe] that is to say, he sheweth himselfe in the sea: [purifie themselves] they have recourse unto God, by prayers vowes, sacrifices, as in a present danger of death, to be delivered by him.

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Are under him] his skin is so hard, or hee is so armed with strong scales, that sharp pointed things, which hee resteth upon doe not hurt him.

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Hee maketh the sea] troubleth it, and maketh it muddy.

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Hee maketh] hee leaveth a long white frothy path behind him.

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There is not] neither man nor beast can overcome, or equall him in strength, nor affright him.

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Hee beholdeth] without any feare: as if hee contemned them.