Psalms Chapter 104 verse 26 Holy Bible
There go the ships; There is leviathan, whom thou hast formed to play therein.
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There go the ships; there is that great beast, which you have made as a plaything.
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There go the ships; [there] that leviathan, which thou hast formed to play therein.
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There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
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There the ships go, And leviathan, whom you formed to play there.
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There do ships go: leviathan, That Thou hast formed to play in it.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 26. - There go the ships. These may seem out of place among the works of God. But are they not his, in a certain sense? Did he not contemplate them when he made the sea, and make it to some extent for them? And did he not give men wisdom to invent and perfect them? There is that leviathan. "Leviathan" is here probably the whale, which may in early times have frequented the Mediterranean. Which thou hast made to play therein; or, to play with him. So the LXX. (ἐμπαίζειν αὐτῷ); and, among moderns, Ewald, Hitzig, Olshausen, Kay, Cheyne, and our Revisers (in the margin). The anthropomorphism is not beyond that of other passages.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(26) Ships.--The poet writes like one who had been accustomed to see the navies of Ph?nicia, one of the indications which leads to the hypothesis that he belonged to the northern part of Palestine. And here for once we seem to catch a breath of enthusiasm for the sea--so rare a feeling in a Jew.Leviathan.--See Psalm 74:14. In Job (Job 41) it is the crocodile, but here evidently an animal of the sea, and probably the whale. Several species of cetacea are still found in the Mediterranean, and that they were known to the Hebrews is clear from Lamentations 4:3. Various passages from classic authors support this view.Whom Thou . . .--This clause is rendered by some "whom Thou hast made to play with him" (so LXX. and Vulg.), referring to Job 41:5. It is a rabbinical tradition that Leviathan is God's play thing.
