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Job 41 Bible study: Can you draw out Leviathan?
In the middle of Leviathan, the LORD asks, "Who then is he who can stand before me?" (41:10), and "Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?" (41:11), where first given is one Hebrew verb, which Strong's gives as "precede". And the pride Leviathan is king over (41:34) is a word the Hebrew Bible uses only there and in 28:8.
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“Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.”
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“Job himself spoke of "the eyelids of the morning" in chapter 3, the verse after he named leviathan.”
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"Can you draw out Leviathan?"
Every word of this chapter is the LORD's. His speech that began, "Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind" (40:6), runs to the end of this chapter; the next heading is "Then Job answered the LORD" (42:1). He had just said, "See now behemoth, which I made as well as you" (40:15). Now he asks, "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?" (41:1). The questions come one after another. "Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?" (41:3). "Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?" (41:4) (tap covenant, servant). "Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?" (41:5). "Will traders barter for him?" (41:6). "Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?" (41:7). Then: "Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more" (41:8), and "Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?" (41:9). The chapter gives no answer from Job to any of these; his next words are in 42:1-6.
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- "Who then is he who can stand before me?"
- "On earth there is not his equal"
- Six times in the Hebrew Bible
- "Who has first given to him?"
- Beside Jesus' words: "We have done our duty"
- 10 questions as you read
- 12 more Hebrew words
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The Hebrew word behind it
קָדַםqadamsay ka-DAM
Strong's: "to project (one self), i.e. precede; hence, to anticipate, hasten, meet". "Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?" (41:11): in Hebrew there is no separate word for given; the WEB's first given is this one verb, with me joined to it. In the Hebrew of Job it comes three times. Job used it twice: "Why did the knees receive me?" (3:12), where receive is this verb, and "Days of affliction have come on me" (30:27), where come on is this verb.
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Job 41 Bible study questions
- 1"Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine" (41:11). Where are you tempted to feel that God owes you something, and what does this verse do to that feeling?
- 2"Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more" (41:8). What in your life has shown you something you can't master or control? How did you respond?
- 3"I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame" (41:12). The LORD lingers over something he made. What in creation leaves you most in awe, and what does it tell you about God?
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