1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
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Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 other; both are very strong and fierce, and the power of the Creator appears in them. The ingenious Sir Richard Blackmore, though he admits the more received opinion concerning the behemoth , that it must…
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