King James Version
What Does Job 41:19 Mean?
“Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.”
Context
17
They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
18
By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19
Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
20
Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
21
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
Commentary
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary9. Rather, "To the north."
**work--**God's glorious works are especially seen towards the north region of the sky by one in the northern hemisphere. The antithesis is between God working and yet not being beheld: as in Job 9:11, between "He goeth by," and "I see Him not." If the Hebrew bears it, the parallelism to the second clause is better suited by translating, as Umbreit, "doth hide himself"; but then the antithesis to "behold" would be lost.
**right hand--**"in the south."
**hideth--**appropriately, of the unexplored south, then regarded as uninhabitable because of its heat (see Job 34:29).
Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset, David Brown. Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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