Job 41
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 41, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord {which} thou lettest down? {leviathan: probably an extinct animal of some kind} {which...: Heb. which thou drownest?}
Job 41:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Job 41:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft {words} unto thee?
Job 41:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
Job 41:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wilt thou play with him as {with} a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Job 41:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
Job 41:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
Job 41:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
Job 41:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not {one} be cast down even at the sight of him?
Job 41:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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None {is so} fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
Job 41:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who hath prevented me, that I should repay {him? whatsoever is} under the whole heaven is mine.
Job 41:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
Job 41:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who can discover the face of his garment? {or} who can come {to him} with his double bridle? {with: or, within}
Job 41:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth {are} terrible round about.
Job 41:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{His} scales {are his} pride, shut up together {as with} a close seal. {scales: Heb. strong pieces of shields}
Job 41:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
Job 41:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
Job 41:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes {are} like the eyelids of the morning.
Job 41:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Out of his mouth go burning lamps, {and} sparks of fire leap out.
Job 41:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as {out} of a seething pot or caldron.
Job 41:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
Job 41:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him. {is turned into joy: Heb. rejoiceth}
Job 41:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved. {flakes: Heb. fallings}
Job 41:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether {millstone}.
Job 41:24 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
Job 41:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. {habergeon: or, breastplate}
Job 41:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He esteemeth iron as straw, {and} brass as rotten wood.
Job 41:27 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
Job 41:28 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
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Sharp stones {are} under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire. {Sharp stones: Heb. Sharp pieces of potsherd}
Job 41:30 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
Job 41:31 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He maketh a path to shine after him; {one} would think the deep {to be} hoary.
Job 41:32 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear. {is made without fear: or, behave themselves without fear}
Job 41:33 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He beholdeth all high {things}: he {is} a king over all the children of pride.
Job 41:34 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.