Job 40:23
And will he make a covenant with you? and will you take him for a perpetual servant?
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
22Will he address you with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant?
24And will you play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child?
Cross References
Genesis 13:10And Lot having lifted up his eyes, observed all the country round about Jordan, that it was all watered, before God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, as the garden of the Lord, and as the land of Egypt, until you come to Zogora.
Psalms 55:8O God, I have declared my life to you; you have set my tears before you, even according to your promise. 1
Isaiah 37:25and I have made a bridge, and dried up the waters, and every pool of water.
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 →