John Trapp on Job 26:5
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Job26:5
Verſe 5 Dead things are formed form under the waters] Here Jobs tongue, like a ſilver bell, begins to found out the great things of God far better then Bildad had done,Abbots. beginning at the bottom, and declaring that nothing is bred or brought forth, whether animate or inanimate, fiſh or other things in all the vaſt and deep Ocean, but it is by his decree and power. The Septuagint or Vulgar, for dead and lifeleſs things, render Giants, and underſtand thereby Whales, thoſe huge Sea Monſters formed under the waters.
And the Inhabitants thereof] That is, ſaith One, other fiſhes in general, which are in the Seas where thoſe Whales are: For there is that Leviathan, and there are creeping things (that is, ſmaller fiſhes) innumerable. And in particular certaine little fiſhes that are noted alwayes to ſwimme with the Whales, as Guides of their way, that they may not unawares coming into muddy places, be miered there. Ariſtotle calleth them Muſcles; Pliny, Muſticets.
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