Job 40:23
Lo, the river overfloweth he startleth not: he is confident though a Jordan break forth against his mouth.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
22Lotus-bushes cover him with their shade; the willows of the brook surround him.
24Shall he be taken in front? will they pierce through [his] nose in the trap?
Cross References
Genesis 13:10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan that it was thoroughly watered, before Jehovah had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; as the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as one goes to Zoar.
Psalms 55:8I would hasten my escape from the stormy wind, from the tempest.
Isaiah 37:25I have digged and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.
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 →