10None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. …
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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