John Gill Commentary Job 41:6

"Will the bands [of fishermen] make traffic of him? Will they part him among the merchants?" — Job 41:6 (ASV)

Shall your companions make a banquet of him ?
&c.] The fishermen that join together in catching fish, shall they make a feast for joy at taking the leviathan? which suggests that he is not to be taken by them, and so they have no opportunity or occasion for a feast: or will they feed on him? the flesh of crocodiles is by some eaten, and said

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shall they part him among the merchants ?
this seems to favour the crocodile, which is no part of merchandise, and to be against the whale, which, at least in our age, occasions a considerable trade for the sake of the bone and oil: but perhaps, in the times and countries where Job lived, the use of them might not be known.

FOOTNOTES:

• F13: to be very savoury, but not the flesh of the whale;