Job 40:23
Will he form a covenant with you, and will you accept him as a servant forever?
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In Context
22Will he offer many prayers to you, or speak to you quietly?
24Will you play with him as with a bird, or tether him for your handmaids?
Cross References
Genesis 13:10And so Lot, lifting up his eyes, saw all the region around the Jordan, which was thoroughly irrigated, before the Lord overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It was like the Paradise of the Lord, and it was like Egypt, approaching toward Zoar.
Psalms 55:8because of this, nothing will save them. In your anger, you will crush the people.
Isaiah 37:25I dug deep, and I drank water, and I dried up all the river banks with the sole of my foot.’
Matthew Henry on Job 40:16-24
Description of Behemoth. ( b. c. 1520.) 15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. 16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. 17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. 18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. 19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. 20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the… Read the whole commentary →