Job 40:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

Job 40:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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;
Psalms 104:26
There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
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. …

Topics

Animals Atheism Attributes of God Beasts Cattle Clean and Unclean Animals Creation God

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. 20)

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…