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href="../job/41-9.htm" title="Job 41:9">◄</a> Job 41:10 <a href="../job/41-11.htm" title="Job 41:11">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">None <i>is so</i> fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/job/41.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/job/41.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/job/41.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/job/41.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/job/41.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/job/41.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/job/41.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a 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<a href="/commentaries/wes/job/41.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/job/41.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(10) <span class= "bld">None is so fierce that dare stir him up.</span>—“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 <a href="/job/40-14.htm" title="Then will I also confess to you that your own right hand can save you.">Job 40:14</a>.) The first clause may be understood thus: “He is not so cruel (the common meaning of the word rendered <span class= "ital">fierce</span>)—<span class= "ital">i.e., </span>to himself—that he should venture to rouse him up.”<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/job/41.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>41:1-34 Concerning Leviathan. - The description of the Leviathan, is yet further to convince Job of his own weakness, and of God's almighty power. Whether this Leviathan be a whale or a crocodile, is disputed. The Lord, having showed Job how unable he was to deal with the Leviathan, sets forth his own power in that mighty creature. If such language describes the terrible force of Leviathan, what words can express the power of God's wrath? Under a humbling sense of our own vileness, let us revere the Divine Majesty; take and fill our allotted place, cease from our own wisdom, and give all glory to our gracious God and Saviour. Remembering from whom every good gift cometh, and for what end it was given, let us walk humbly with the Lord.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/job/41.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>None is so fierce that dare stir him up - No one has courage to rouse and provoke him.<p>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? <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/job/41.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>10. fierce—courageous. If a man dare attack one of My creatures (Ge 49:9; Nu 24:9), who will dare (as Job has wished) oppose himself (Ps 2:2) to Me, the Creator? This is the main drift of the description of leviathan.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/job/41.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">That dare stir him up, </span> when he sleepeth or is quiet. None dare provoke him to the battle. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">To stand before me; </span> to contend with me his Creator, as thou, Job, dost, when one of my creatures is too hard for him. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/job/41.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>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 <a href="/ezekiel/29-3.htm">Ezekiel 29:3</a>; 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); <p>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 <a href="/psalms/76-7.htm">Psalm 76:7</a>. <p>(q) Plin. l. 8. c. 25. Solin. c. 45. (r) Ammian. Marcellin. l. 22. (s) See the North-West Fox, p. 205. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/job/41.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">None <i>is so</i> fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to <span class="cverse3">{a}</span> stand before me?</span><p>(a) If no one dare stand against a whale, which is but a creature, who is able to compare with God the creator?</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/job/41.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">10, 11</span>. 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?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/job/41.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 10.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">None is so fierce that dare stir him up</span>. 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<span class="cmt_word">. Who then is able to stand before me?</span> 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! Job 41:10<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/job/41.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>10 None is so foolhardy that he dare excite him!<p>And who is it who could stand before Me?<p>11 Who hath given Me anything first of all, that I must requite it?<p>Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is Mine.<p>One sees from these concluding inferences, thus applied, what is the design, in the connection of this second speech of Jehovah, of the reference to behmoth and leviathan, which somewhat abruptly began in <a href="/job/40-15.htm">Job 40:15</a>. If even the strength of one of God's creatures admits no thought of being able to attack it, how much more should the greatness of the Creator deter man from all resistance! For no one has any claim on God, so that he should have the right of appearing before Him with a rude challenge. Every creature under heaven is God's; man, therefore, possesses nothing that was not God's property and gift, and he must humbly yield, whether God gives or takes away. לא, <a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-10.htm">Job 41:10</a>, is not directly equivalent to אין, but the clause is exclamatory. יעורנו Chethb, יעירנו Ker, is the Palestine reading, the reverse the Babylonian; the authorized text (chiefly without a Ker) is יעוּרנּוּ from עוּר in a transitive signification (ἐγείρειν), as שׁוּב, <a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-12.htm">Job 39:12</a>, comp. <a href="/job/42-10.htm">Job 42:10</a>. The meaning of הקדּימני is determined according to ואשׁלּם: to anticipate, viz., by gifts presented as a person is approaching the giver (Arab. aqdama). הוּא, <a href="http://biblehub.com/job/41-11.htm">Job 41:11</a>, is neutral, as <a href="/job/13-16.htm">Job 13:16</a>; <a href="/job/15-9.htm">Job 15:9</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/job/31-11.htm">Job 31:11</a>, <a href="/job/31-28.htm">Job 31:28</a>. תּחת is virtually a subj.: that which is under ... . After these apparently epiphonematic verses (2 and 3), one might now look for Job's answer. 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