Job 41:20 (BSB)
Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
Commentary on Job 41:20
- 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 41:20: Out of his nostrils goeth forth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. In which flesh or anything else is boiling. It is observed that there is a likeness between the crocodile and the river horse, and particularly in their breathing (u): and of the former it is remarked (w), that its nostrils are very large and open, and that they breathe out...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 41:20: seething--boiling: literally, "blown under," under which a fire is blown.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Job 41:18-21: Job 41:18-21 18 His sneezing sendeth forth light, And his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn; 19 Out of his mouth proceed flames, Sparks of fire escape from him; 20 Out of his nostrils goeth forth smoke Like a seething pot and caldron; 21 His breath kindleth coals, And flames go forth out of his mouth.