Job 41:24

When he raiseth up himself,.... Not out of the waters, but above the surface of them, so as that his large bulk, his terrible jaws and teeth, are seem;

the mighty are afraid; not only fishes and…

His heart is as firm as a stone - As hard; as solid. Bochart remarks that the word “heart” here is not to be regarded as denoting the “courage” of the animal, as it sometimes does, but the heart…

Hard as a piece of the nether millstone - Which is required to be harder than that which runs above.

God, having in the foregoing verses shown Job how unable he was to deal with the leviathan, here sets forth his own power in that massy mighty creature. Here is,

I. God's sovereign dominion and…

The second clause reads,

Yea, firm as the nether millstone.

Gen. "as hard as the nether millstone." The term "firm," lit. cast, is repeated from the first clause (cf. Job 41:41). The nether…