Job 40:20
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
Job 40:20 in other translations
| BSB | The hills yield him their produce, while all the beasts of the field play nearby. |
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| WEB | Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play. |
| ASV | Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the beasts of the field do play. |
| YLT | For food do mountains bear for him, And all the beasts of the field play there. |
| DARBY | For the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. |
| BBE | He takes the produce of the mountains, where all the beasts of the field are at play. |
| Webster | Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. |
What does Job 40:20 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 40:20 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 40:20
- Psalms 104:26
There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
- Psalms 104:14
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
- Job 40:15
Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
- Psalms 147:8-9
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
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Context
- Job 40:19
He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
- Job 40:20
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
- Job 40:21
He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
Job 40:20 in other languages
| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car les montagnes lui apportent sa pâture, là où se jouent toutes les bêtes des champs. |
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| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ziehst du den Leviathan herbei mit der Angel, und senkst du seine Zunge in die Angelschnur? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | An extrahere poteris Leviathan hamo, et fune ligabis linguam ejus? |