Job 40:23
Lo, a flood oppresseth — he doth not haste, He is confident though Jordan Doth come forth unto his mouth.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
22Cover him do shades, [with] their shadow, Cover him do willows of the brook.
24Before his eyes doth [one] take him, With snares doth [one] pierce the nose?
Cross References
Genesis 13:10And Lot lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the whole circuit of the Jordan that it [is] all a watered country (before Jehovah's destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, as Jehovah's garden, as the land of Egypt,) in thy coming toward Zoar,
Psalms 55:8I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.
Isaiah 37:25I — I 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 →