He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
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Barnes' Notes
He beholdeth all high things - That is, he looks down on everything as inferior to him. He is a king over all the children of pride - Referring, by “the children of pride,” to the animals that are…
Adam Clarke
He is a king over all the children of pride - There is no animal in the waters that does not fear and fly from him. Hence the Chaldee renders it, all the offspring of Fishes. Calmet says, that by the…
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…
Cambridge Bible
he beholdeth all high things Or, he looketh on all that is high; he looks them boldly in the face without terror.
the children of pride That is, the proud beasts; comp. ch. Job 28:8.
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