Job 40:23
Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
Job 40:23 in other translations
| BSB | Though the river rages, Behemoth is unafraid; he remains secure, though the Jordan surges to his mouth. |
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| WEB | Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn’t tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth. |
| ASV | Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; He is confident, though a Jordan swell even to his mouth. |
| YLT | Lo, a flood oppresseth--he doth not haste, He is confident though Jordan Doth come forth unto his mouth. |
| DARBY | Lo, the river overfloweth — he startleth not: he is confident though a Jordan break forth against his mouth. |
| BBE | Truly, if the river is overflowing, it gives him no cause for fear; he has no sense of danger, even if Jordan is rushing against his mouth. |
| Webster | Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. |
What does Job 40:23 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 40:23 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 40:23
- Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
- Isaiah 37:25
I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
- Isaiah 28:16
Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
- Joshua 3:15
And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)
- Psalms 55:8
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
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Context
- Job 40:22
The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
- Job 40:23
Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
- Job 40:24
He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
Job 40:23 in other languages
| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Voici, que le fleuve déborde avec violence, il ne se précipite pas; il est plein d’assurance si un Jourdain se jette contre sa gueule. |
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| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wird er einen Bund mit dir machen, daß du ihn zum ewigen Knechte nehmest? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Numquid feriet tecum pactum, et accipies eum servum sempiternum? |