None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
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None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?
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None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
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(41-2) None is so fierce that dare stir him up; who then is able to stand before Me?
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Passages linked to Job 41:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Job 9:4 God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
- Genesis 49:9 Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?
- Numbers 24:9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.”
- Job 3:8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
- Job 40:9 Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
- Psalms 2:11-12 Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
- Jeremiah 12:5 “If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
- 1 Corinthians 10:22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
- Ezekiel 8:17-18 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose. Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 41:10 None [is so] fierce that dare stir…
Job 41:10 None [is so] fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
Ver. 10. None is so fierce that dare stir him up] Unless he be ambitious of his own destruction; cruel (so the word here signifieth) to his own life, which hereby he desperately casteth away. Aristotle telleth us that fishes do sleep: and perhaps these greater fishes take more sleep. Now who dare awake them sleeping, or encounter them waking, and rolling in the waters? None surely but a mad man.
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Who then is able to stand before me?] Et est qui coram me stet? No more surely than a man before a whale, or a glass bottle before a cannon shot. Here then we have the accommodation and application of the former discourse, which we must not look upon as cunningly devised fables, 2Pe 1:6, or read as we do the old stories of foreign businesses, but as that wherein ourselves are nearly interested and concerned, that we may give God the glory of his power (as here, far beyond that of the whale or any other creature) and of his justice, as Job 41:11-12.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain That dare stir him up, when he sleepeth or…
That dare stir him up, when he sleepeth or is quiet. None dare provoke him to the battle.
To stand before me; to contend with me his Creator, as thou, Job, dost, when one of my creatures is too hard for him.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain None is so fierce that dare stir him up,....…
None is so fierce that dare stir him up,.... This seems best to agree with the crocodile, who frequently lies down and sleeps on the ground (q), and in the water by night (r); see Eze 29:3; when it is very dangerous to arouse him; and few, if any so daring, have courage enough to do it: though whales have been seen lying near shore asleep, and looked like rocks, even forty of them together (s);
who then is able to stand before me? This is the inference the Lord draws from hence, or the use he makes of it; that if this creature is so formidable and terrible, that it is dangerous to arouse and provoke him, and there is no standing before him or against him; then how should anyone be able to stand before the Lord, who made this creature, whenever he is angry? see Psa 76:7.
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(q) Plin. l. 8. c. 25. Solin. c. 45. (r) Ammian. Marcellin. l. 22. (s) See the North-West Fox, p. 205.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Stand - To the battle. Me - To contend…
Stand - To the battle. Me - To contend with me who created him?
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 10. None is so fierce that dare stir…
Verse 10. None is so fierce that dare stir him up] The most courageous of men dare not provoke the crocodile to fight, or even attempt to rouse him, when, sated with fish, he takes his repose among the reeds. The strongest of men cannot match him.
Who then is able] If thou canst not stand against the crocodile, one of the creatures of my hand, how canst thou resist me, who am his Maker? This is the use which God makes of the formidable description which he has thus far given of this terrible animal.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain None is so fierce that dare stir him up…
None is so fierce that dare stir him up - No one has courage to rouse and provoke him.
Who then is able to stand before me? - The meaning of this is plain. It is, “If one of my creatures is so formidable that man dare not attack it, how can he contend with the great Creator? This may perhaps be designed as a reproof of Job. He had expressed a desire to carry his cause before God, and to urge argument before him in vindication of himself. God here shows him how hopeless must be a contest with the Almighty. Man trembles and is disarmed of his courage by even the sight of one of the creatures of God. Overpowered with fear, he retires from the contemplated contest, and flees away. How then could he presume to contend with God? What hope could he have in a contest with him?
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Fire, when they spout water, (Menochius) or pursue their…
Fire, when they spout water, (Menochius) or pursue their prey open mouthed. This description is extremely poetical, like that of anger, 2 Kings xxii. 9. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain fierce--courageous. If a man dare attack one of My…
fierce--courageous. If a man dare attack one of My creatures (Gen 49:9; Num 24:9), who will dare (as Job has wished) oppose himself (Psa 2:2) to Me, the Creator? This is the main drift of the description of leviathan.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 10. Fierce — Zockler renders “foolhardy,” which is not…
10. Fierce — Zockler renders “foolhardy,” which is not to be preferred to the text, since the same word akzar, fierce, is in Job_30:21 applied by Job to God.
Dare stir him up — The same Hebrew word עור, “stir up,” is used in Job_3:8, of “raising up” leviathan, where it is implied that the only conceivable mode of dealing with him was by incantations — possibly spells of Satan, certainly by power supposed to be derived from the invisible world. See note on Job_3:8. The coincidence between the two passages should be noted, and is among many similar ones scattered through the Jehovistic section, which point to its integral oneness with the rest of the book. See Excursus VIII, page 281. In an inscription on a tablet at Karnak, Amun Ra thus addresses Thothmes III.: “I have made them behold thy majesty like unto a crocodile: he is the terrible master of the waters: no one ventures to approach him.”
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 10, 11. In these verses the speaker turns aside…
10, 11. In these verses the speaker turns aside from describing the invincibility of Leviathan to impress the moral which he intends to teach by introducing the monster. If none dare stir up this creature, which God has made, who will stand before God who created him, or venture to contend with Him?
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (10) None is so fierce that dare stir him…
(10) None is so fierce that dare stir him up.—“If, therefore, the creatures of My hand strike so much terror, how far more terrible must I be? If thou canst not save thyself from them, how much less canst thou be saved without Me?” (See Job_40:14.) The first clause may be understood thus: “He is not so cruel (the common meaning of the word rendered fierce)—i.e., to himself—that he should venture to rouse him up.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain None is so fierce that dare stir him up.…
None is so fierce that dare stir him up. The crocodile is often seen asleep, or nearly asleep, upon sand-banks washed by the Nile. He would be a bold man who should creep near, and stir him up. Who then is able to stand before me? Here we reach the point whereto the whole argument has been working up. If man cannot cope with creatures, which are the work of God"s hands, how much leas can he presume to cope with him who is their Maker!
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Connecting Statement:
Connecting Statement:
Yahweh continues to rebuke Job by asking him rhetorical questions. He uses rhetorical questions to remind Job that Yahweh is much more powerful than both Leviathan and Job.
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None is so fierce that he dare stir Leviathan up; who, then, is he who can stand before me?
It would be easier to stir up Leviathan than to stand before Yahweh. This question can be translated as a statement. AT: "Since you know that no person is so fierce that he dare stir Leviathan up, you should certainly know that no one can stand before me." (See: Rhetorical Question)
Who has first given anything to me in order that I should repay him?
This question can be translated as a statement. AT: "You know that no one has first given anything to me, so there is no one whom I need to repay." (See: Rhetorical Question)
he ... him
The words "he" and "him" refer to a person.
I will not keep silent concerning ... nor about ... nor about
This can be translated in positive form. AT: "I will certainly speak about ... and about ... and about" (See: Litotes)
concerning Leviathan's legs, nor about the matter of his strength, nor about his graceful form
These are three things about which God will not keep silent.
his
The word "his" refers to Leviathan.
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heaven
grace
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