Job 41:20

Out of his nostrils goeth smoke -See the quotations onJob 41:19. This appearance of the crocodile, or alligator, has been often noticed. Bertram, in his “Travels in North and South Carolina,” p. 116, says, “While I was seeking a place of rest, I encountered an alligator that in the neighboring lake rushed through the canes that grew on its banks. He inflated his enormous body, and swung his tail high in the air. A thick smoke streamed from his wide-open nostrils, with a sound that made the earth tremble.” Rosenmuller, “Alte u. neue Morgenland,” No. 778. As out of a seething-pot -A pot that is boiling. Literally, “a blown pot;” that is, a pot under which the fire is blown, or kindled.