John Trapp on Job 41:7

Verſe 7. Canſt thou fill his skin with barbed irons?] Harpag[illegible: 2 letters]ibus. Heb. With thornes; ſcil. to pull him to the ſhore? Opianus, Albertus Magnus, Geſner, and others now write, how Whales are to be taken; and experience proves it to be feiſable. They are ſometimes caſt upon the Land by the ſurging rage or violence of the ſea, or by the ebbing thereof, left in a ford where they cannot ſwim, and ſo they become a prey to the fiſhermen with their guns, darts, &c.