He is the first of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
All Commentaries on Job 40:19 Go To Job 40
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Stakes. Serpents attack the eyes of the elephant, and sometimes drag it by the trunk into the deep, where it is drowned. (Pliny viii. 12.; Solin xxxviii.)
Others read with an interrogation: "Shall one take? "Will any one dare to attack it openly? The elephant is taken by stratagem, either in pits covered with a little earth, or by a tame elephant in an inclosure, and (Calmet) lying on her hack to receive the male. (Aristotle, anim. v. 2.)
When he has entered, the gate is shut, and the animal is tamed by hunger; being thus taken by his eyes, Judith x. 17. Chaldean, "They pierce his nostrils with bands. "Thus other animals are led about, (ver. 21) and the elephant might be so treated in those days; though of this we have no account. (Calmet)
Protestants, "his nose pierceth through snares "or marginal note, "will any bore his nose with a gin? "Here they conclude this chapter, which commences chap. xxxix. 31., in Hebrew. But the Septuagint agree with us. (Haydock)
