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Job 41:7

Job 41:7
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? This seems not so well to agree with the whale; whose skin, and the several parts of his body, are to be pierced with harpoons…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? - Referring to its thickness and impenetrability. A common method of taking fish is by the spear; but it is here said that the leviathan could not be caught…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? - This refers to some kind of harpoon work, similar to that employed in taking whales, and which they might use for some other kinds of animals; for the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 41:1-10

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Job 41:1-34

Job 40:6 to Job 42:6. The Lord's Second Answer to Job out of the Storm

Shall Man charge God with unrighteousness in His Rule of the World?

All that the first speech of the Lord touched upon was the…