John Trapp on Job 41:10
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Job41:10
Verſe 10. None is ſo fierce that dare ſtir him up] Unleſſe he be ambitious of his own deſtruction: cruel (ſo the word here ſignifieth) to his owne life, which hereby he deſperately caſteth away. Ariſtotle telleth us, That fiſhes do ſleep; and perhaps theſe greater fiſhes take more ſleep. Now who dare awake them ſleeping, or encounter them waking, and rouling in the waters? None ſurely but a mad man.
Who then is able to ſtand before me?] Et eſt qui coram me ſtet? No more ſurely then a man before a Whale, or a glaſs bottle before a Cannon ſhot. Here then we have the accommodation and application of the former Diſcourſe, which we muſt not look upon as cunningly deviſed fables, 2 Pet. 1.16. or read as we do the old ſtories of forragne buſineſſes, but as that wherein our ſelves are nearly intereſted and concerned, that we may give God the glory of his Power, (as here, far beyond that of the Whale or any other creature) and of his Juſtice, as verſe 11, 12.
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