23Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
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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.
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,)
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.
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
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…
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