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Clementine Latin Vulgate
Psalmi 41:10
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De ore ejus lampades procedunt,
sicut tædæ ignis accensæ.
[41:2] Nemo tam audax, ut suscitet eum. Quis enim resistere potest vultui eius?
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
dare: Genesis 49:9, Numbers 24:9, Psalms 2:11, Psalms 2:12, Ezekiel 8:17, Ezekiel 8:18
who: Job 9:4, Job 40:9, Jeremiah 12:5, 1 Corinthians 10:22
Reciprocal: Job 3:8 - their mourning Jeremiah 49:19 - that shepherd Jeremiah 50:44 - who is a
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 Ezekiel 29:3; 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;
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 Psalms 76:7.
q Plin. l. 8. c. 25. Solin. c. 45. r Ammian. Marcellin. l. 22. s See the North-West Fox, p. 205.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
None is so fierce that dare stir him up - No one has courage to rouse and provoke him.
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?
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 41:10. None is so fierce that dare stir him up — The most courageous of men dare not provoke the crocodile to fight, or even attempt to rouse him, when, sated with fish, he takes his repose among the reeds. The strongest of men cannot match him.
Who then is able — If thou canst not stand against the crocodile, one of the creatures of my hand, how canst thou resist me, who am his Maker? This is the use which God makes of the formidable description which he has thus far given of this terrible animal.
