Job 40:23
Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; he is confident, though the Jordan rush forth to his mouth.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
22The lotus-trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
24Shall any take him by his eyes, or pierce through his nose with a snare?
Cross References
Genesis 13:10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest unto Zoar.
Psalms 55:8(55-9) I would haste me to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.'
Isaiah 37:25I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.
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 →