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Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?
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Leviathan's Defenses
Commentators agree that the “outer garment” refers to Leviathan's impenetrable skin or scales. The “double bridle” is a poetic term for its formidable jaws. The verse uses these powerful images to ask a rhetorical question: Who would be foolish enough to try and strip this creature's hide or place their hand inside its mouth? The answer, of course, is no one.
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Job
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Who can discern the face of his garment? - literally, “Who can reveal the face, that is, the appearance, of his garment?” This “garment” is …
19th Century
Anglican
Who can discover ...? —Rather, Who can strip off his outer garment? that is, his scales, which are the covering of his sk…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Who can discover the face of his garment ? &c.] Or rather uncover it? Not the sea, which Mr. Broughton represents as…
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The description of the Leviathan is further to convince Job of his own weakness and of God's almighty power. Whether this Leviathan is a whale or a…
13th Century
Catholic
After describing the structure of Leviathan, the Lord next describes its powerful actions. Just as He first described the arrangement of its head a…