Job 41:13 (BSB)
Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?
Commentary on Job 41:13
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 41:11-34: God, having in the foregoing verses shown Job how unable he was to deal with the leviathan, here sets forth his own power in that massy mighty creature. Here is, I. God's sovereign dominion and independency laid down, Job 41:11. 1. That he is indebted to none of his creatures.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 41:13: Who can discover the face of his garment?.... Or rather uncover it? Not the sea, which Mr. Broughton represents as the garment of the whale; who can strip him of it, or take him out of that, and bring him to land? which, though not impossible, is difficult: but either the garment of his face, the large bulk or prominence that hangs over his eyes; or rather his skin.
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 41:13: discover--rather, "uncover the surface" of his garment (skin, Job 10:11): strip off the hard outer coat with which the inner skin is covered. with--rather, "within his double jaws"; literally, "bridle"; hence that into which the bridle is put, the double row of teeth; but "bridle" is used to imply that none dare put his hand in to insert a bridle where in other animals it...
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Job 41:13: Who can discover the face of his garment? [or] who can come [to him] with his double bridle? (d) That is, who dare pull off his skin? (e) Who dare put a bridle in his mouth?