Job 40:16
Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
Job 40:16 in other translations
| BSB | See the strength of his loins and the power in the muscles of his belly. |
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| WEB | Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly. |
| ASV | Lo now, his strength is in his loins, And his force is in the muscles of his belly. |
| YLT | Lo, I pray thee, his power is in his loins, And his strength in the muscles of his belly. |
| DARBY | Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the muscles of his belly. |
| BBE | His strength is in his body, and his force in the muscles of his stomach. |
| Webster | Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. |
What does Job 40:16 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 40:15-24
15-24. God shows that if Job cannot bring under control the lower animals (of which he selects the two most striking, behemoth on land, leviathan in the water), much less is he capable of governing the world. behemoth--The description in part agrees with the hippopotamus, in part with the elephant, but exactly in all details with neither. It is rather a poetical personification of the great Pachydermata, or…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 40:15-24
God, for the further proving of his own power, describes two vast animals, far exceeding man in bulk and strength. Behemoth signifies beasts. Most understand it of an animal well known in Egypt, called the river-horse, or hippopotamus. This vast animal is noticed as an argument to humble ourselves before the great God; for he created this vast animal, which is so fearfully and wonderfully made. Whatever strength…
Job 40:16 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Job 40:15
Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
- Job 40:16
Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
- Job 40:17
He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
Job 40:16 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Echaráse debajo de las sombras, en lo oculto de las cañas, y de los lugares húmedos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Regarde donc: sa force est dans ses reins, et sa puissance dans les muscles de son ventre. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Unter Lotosbüschen legt er sich nieder, im Versteck von Rohr und Sumpf; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Sub umbra dormit in secreto calami, et in locis humentibus. |