Job 41:18 Meaning and Explanation
“By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →God describes leviathan's sneezes flashing with light and his eyes gleaming like the first rays of dawn.
What Does Job 41:18 Mean?
The portrait turns dazzling and strange: the creature's snorting throws off flashes of light, and its eyes glow like the reddening eyelids of the morning. Spray and sunlight conspire to crown the beast with splendor.
Even in describing a creature of dread, God sets before Job a kind of terrible beauty. The eyelids of the morning is a phrase of pure poetry, the dawn breaking over the deep. The Maker who paints the sunrise has woven that same light into the breath of leviathan. The world He governs is fearsome and glorious at once, and both bear witness to His glory.
Job 41:18 in the Original Language
shachar (שַׁחַר), 'morning' -- the dawn, the first reddening light that breaks over the horizon.
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What does Job 41:18 mean?
God describes leviathan's sneezes flashing with light and his eyes gleaming like the first rays of dawn.