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Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?
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Beyond Human Commerce
The verse asks two rhetorical questions: Can fishermen feast on Leviathan or sell it to merchants? The implied answer is a resounding "no." Commentators explain that this highlights the creature's invulnerability. It cannot be caught, eaten, or traded, placing it completely outside the realm of human enterprise and control.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Shall thy companions make a banquet of him?—This is one of the “vexed passages” about which there has been much difference of…
19th Century
Anglican
Shall the companions make a banquet of him? —Or, Shall the bands of fishermen make merchandise of him? or, dig a pit for him?…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Shall your companions make a banquet of him ? &c.] The fishermen that join together in catching fish, shall they mak…
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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 the Lord described the power of Leviathan, showing that humanity cannot conquer him but only God can, He now speaks of Leviathan's power to a…
