Job 40:23
Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
22Will he make many supplications to thee, or speak soft words to thee?
24Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy handmaids?
Cross References
Genesis 13:10And Lot, lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.
Psalms 55:8And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest?
Isaiah 37:25I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole of my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.
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 →