Job 41:6

Job 41:6

Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

a. ASV: Will the bands of fishermen make traffic of him? Will they part him among the merchants?

b. YLT: (Feast upon him do companions, They divide him among the merchants!)

c. Classic Amplified: Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?

d. Septuagint [Job Chapter 41 in the Septuagint has only 26 verses as compared to our Bible with 34. The Septuagint 41:6 is actually 41:14 in our Bible. Some of the verses are in Job 40. This verse is in Job 40:30]:  And do the nations feed upon him, and the nations of the Phoenicians share him?

e. Stone Edition Torah/Prophets/ Writings [Some of Job 41 in our Bible is found in Job 40 of the Jewish translation. This verse is Job 40:30 in the Jewish translation]: Can friends make a feast of him, can they divide him among the merchants? 

1. “Shall the companions make a banquet of him?...”

a. [Shall the] companions [Strong: 2271 chabbar khab-bawr' from 2266; a partner:--companion.]

b. [make a] banquet [Strong: 3738 karah kaw-raw' a primitive root; properly, to dig; figuratively, to plot; generally, to bore or open:--dig, X make (a banquet), open.]

c. of [him] [Strong: 5921 `al al properly, the same as 5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications (as follow):--above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, X as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, X both and, by (reason of), X had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-)on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, X with.]

2. “...shall they part him among the merchants?”

a. [shall they] part [him] [Strong: 2673 chatsah khaw-tsaw' a primitive root (Compare 2086)); to cut or split in two; to halve:--divide, X live out half, reach to the midst, participle]

b. among [Strong: 996 beyn bane (sometimes in the plural masculine or feminine); properly, the constructive form of an otherwise unused noun from 995; a distinction; but used only as a prep, between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or:--among, asunder, at, between (-twixt...and), + from (the widest), X in, out of, whether (it be...or), within.[

c. [the] merchants [Strong: 3669 Kna`aniy ken-ah-an-ee' patrial from 3667; a Kenaanite or inhabitant of Kenaan; by implication, a pedlar (the Canaanites standing for their neighbors the Ishmaelites, who conducted mercantile caravans):--Canaanite, merchant, trafficker.]

1). This creature was huge, he was so dangerous that those hunting him had to use the utmost caution. His teeth inspired fear and terror. He was covered with scales all over his body and he was fire breathing. It appears he left the water sometimes because as the NIV says in verse 30, “His undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.” We know though that even as fearful as this creature was, he was hunted for food as was the creature called a “dragon” in Isaiah 27:1.

b). Psalm 74:13, 14 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. 

74:14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

2). Institute Of Creation Research Daily Devotional 7/16/11 There is a remarkable animal called a "leviathan" described in the direct words of God in chapter 41 of Job. It is surprising that most modern expositors call this animal merely a crocodile. Our text plainly calls it a "piercing serpent . . . the dragon that is in the sea." He is also said to "play" in the "great and wide sea" (Psalm 104:25, 26). God's description in Job 41 says "a flame goeth out of his mouth" (v.21), and "he maketh the deep to boil like a pot" (v.31). The entire description is awesome! Whatever a leviathan might have been, it was not a crocodile! In fact, there is no animal living today which fits the description. Therefore, it is an extinct animal, almost certainly a great marine reptile with "terrible teeth" and "scales" (vv.14, 15) still surviving in the oceans of Job's day, evidently one of the fearsome reptiles that gave rise to the worldwide tales of great sea dragons, before they became extinct. But that is not all. In ending His discourse, God called leviathan "a king over all the children of pride" (Job 41:34), so the animal is also symbolic of Satan, whose challenge to God instigated Job's strange trials. He is "the great dragon . . . that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world" (Revelation 12:9). Perhaps, therefore, the mysterious and notorious extinction of the dinosaurs is a secular prophecy of the coming Day of Judgment, when God "shall punish leviathan" (Isaiah 27:1), and the "devil that deceived them" will be "cast into the lake of fire . . . and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever" (Revelation 20:10). HMM