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26There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
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They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
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.
The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-30)We are here taught to praise and magnify God, I. For the constant revolutions and succession of day and night, and the dominion of sun and moon over them. The heathen were so affected with the light and influence of the sun and moon, and their serviceableness to the earth, that they worshipped them as deities; and therefore the scripture takes all occasions to show that the gods they worshipped ar…
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