Job 40:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

Job 40:17 —

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Job 41:23
The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-24)

God, for the further proving of his own power and disproving of Job’s pretensions, concludes his discourse with the description of two vast and mighty animals, far exceeding man in bulk and strength, one he calls behemoth, the other leviathan. In these verses we have the former described. “ Behold now behemoth, and consider whether thou art able to contend with him who made that beast and gave him…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

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 Pachyd…