Job 41:5

5 portas vultus eius quis aperiet per gyrum dentium eius formido

Job 41:5 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:5

Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird?
&c.] In the hand or cage: leviathan plays in the sea, but there is no playing with him by land, ( Psalms 104:26 ) ;

or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
or young girls, as Mr. Broughton renders it; tie him in a string, as birds are for children to play with? Now, though crocodiles are very pernicious to children, and often make a prey of them when they approach too near the banks of the Nile, or whenever they have an opportunity of seizing them F11; yet there is an instance of the child of an Egyptian woman that was brought up with one, and used to play with it F12, though, when grown up, was killed by it; but no such instance can be given of the whale of any sort.


FOOTNOTES:

F11 Aelian. l. 10. c. 21.
F12 Maxim. Tyr. Sermon. 38.

Job 41:5 In-Context

3 non parcam ei et verbis potentibus et ad deprecandum conpositis
4 quis revelavit faciem indumenti eius et in medium oris eius quis intrabit
5 portas vultus eius quis aperiet per gyrum dentium eius formido
6 corpus illius quasi scuta fusilia et conpactum squamis se prementibus
7 una uni coniungitur et ne spiraculum quidem incedit per eas
The Latin Vulgate is in the public domain.