Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
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Gill's Exposition
Shall thy companions make a banquet of him?.... The fishermen that join together in catching fish, shall they make a feast for joy at taking the leviathan? which suggests that he is not to be taken by…
Barnes' Notes
Shall thy companions make a banquet of him? - This is one of the “vexed passages” about which there has been much difference of opinion. Gesenius renders it, “Do the companions (“i. e.” the fishermen…
Adam Clarke
Shall thy companions make a banquet - Canst thou and thy friends feast on him as ye were wont to do on a camel sacrificed for this purpose? Or, canst thou dispose of his flesh to the merchants - to…
Whether this leviathan be a whale or a crocodile is a great dispute among the learned, which I will not undertake to determine; some of the particulars agree more easily to the one, others to the…
Cambridge Bible
The first clause reads,
Will the partners bargain over him?
This sense is sustained by the second clause; comp. ch. Job 6:27. By "the partners" is meant the company of fishermen; comp. Luk 5:7; Luk…