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He sees everything that is high: He is king over all the sons of pride."
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A Creature's Power Reveals God's
Commentators agree the point of this verse is to display God's supreme power. Leviathan is described as 'king over all the sons of pride' (the mightiest animals) to make a larger point: if a mere creature is this powerful, how much more powerful and majestic is the Creator? The description is meant to humble Job and the reader before God's almighty power.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
He beholds all high things—that is, he looks down on everything as inferior to him.
He is a king over all the children of pride
19th Century
Anglican
Upon earth there is not his like. — Some have proposed to remove the last two verses of Job 41 (Job 41:33–34)…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
He beholds all high [things] Or "who beholds all high [things]"; even he that made leviathan, that is, God, as the a…
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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…
