Job 41:14

“Who can open the doors of his face? etc.] Of his mouth, the jaws thereof, which are like a pair of folding doors: the jaws of a crocodile have a prodigious opening. Peter Martyr f1532 speaks of one, whose jaws opened seven feet broad; and Leo Africanus f1533 affirms he saw some, whose jaws, when opened, would hold a whole cow. To the wideness of the jaws of this creature Martial f1534 alludes; and that the doors or jaws of the mouth of the whale are of a vast extent will be easily believed by those who suppose that was the fish which swallowed Jonah; his teeth are terrible round about; this may seem to make against the whale, the common whale having none; though the “ceti dentati” are a sort…”

“doors of . . . face--his mouth. His teeth are sixty in number, larger in proportion than his body, some standing out, some serrated, fitting into each other like a comb [BOCHART].”

“Who can open the doors of his face? - His mouth. The same term is sti 1 used to denote the mouth - from its resemblance to a door. The idea is, that no one would dare to force open his mouth. This agrees better with the crocodile than almost any other animal. It would not apply to the whale. The crocodile is armed with a more formidable set of teeth than almost any other animal; see the description in the notes at Job 41:1. Bochart says that it has sixty teeth, and those much larger than in proportion to the size of the body. Some of them, he says, stand out; some of them are serrated, or like a saw, fitting into each other when the mouth is closed; and some come together in the manner of a…”

“Doors - His mouth. If it be open, none dare enter within, and if it be shut, none dare open it. Job 41:15”

“the: Job 38:10; Ecc 12:4 his teeth: Psa 57:4, Psa 58:6; Pro 30:14; Dan 7:7 Job 41:15”