9Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.
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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