Job 40:23
Behold, a flood oppresses—he does not hurry, || He is confident though Jordan || Comes forth to his mouth.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
22Shades cover him, [with] their shadow, || Willows of the brook cover him.
24Does [one] take him by his eyes? || Does [one] pierce the nose with snares?”
Cross References
Genesis 13:10And Lot lifts up his eyes, and sees the whole circuit of the Jordan that it [is] all a watered country (before YHWH’s destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, as YHWH’s garden, as the land of Egypt), in your coming toward Zoar,
Psalms 55:8I hurry escape for myself, || From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.
Isaiah 37:25I have dug and drunk waters, || And I dry up with the sole of my steps || All floods of a bulwark.
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 →