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Job 40:20
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The hills yield food for him,while all sorts of wild animals play there.
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the animals of the field do play.
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
For the mountains yield food for him where all the wild beasts play.
The hills, where the wild animals play, provide food for it.
For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play.
"Surely the mountains bring him food, And all the wild animals play there.
"Indeed the mountains bring him food, And all the animals of the field play there.
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the animals of the field do play.
Surely the mountaines bring him foorth grasse, where all the beastes of the fielde play.
Surely the mountains bring it food,And all the beasts of the field play there.
The hills yield him their produce, while all the beasts of the field play nearby.
Undisturbed, it eats grass while the other animals play nearby.
The mountains produce food for him there, where all the wild animals play.
For the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
He eats the grass that grows on the hills where the wild animals play.
He roams about the mountains, and all the wild beasts of the field lie down under his protection.
Grass to feed him grows on the hills where wild beasts play.
Yes, the mountains yield produce for it, and all wild animals play there.
For the mountains yield food for him, and all the beasts of the field play there.
yt the mountaynes shulde geue him grasse, where all the beastes off the felde take their pastyme.
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the beasts of the field do play.
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, and all the beasts of the field play there.
Surely the mountaines bring him foorth foode: where all the beasts of the field play.
Surely the mountaines bring him foorth grasse, where all the beastes of the fielde take their pastime.
But wilt thou catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?
Surely the mountains bring him forth food; where all the beasts of the field do play.
Hillis beren eerbis to this behemot; alle the beestis of the feeld pleien there.
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the beasts of the field play.
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
Surely the mountains yield food for him, And all the beasts of the field play there.
The mountains offer it their best food, where all the wild animals play.
For sure the mountains bring food to him where all the animals of the field play.
For the mountains yield food for it where all the wild animals play.
Surely the mountains bring, produce, to him, where, all the wild beasts of the field, do play;
(40-15) To him the mountains bring forth grass: there all the beasts of the field shall play.
For the mountains yield food for him where all the wild beasts play.
For food do mountains bear for him, And all the beasts of the field play there.
"Surely the mountains bring him food, And all the beasts of the field play there.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the mountains: Job 40:15, Psalms 147:8, Psalms 147:9
where: Psalms 104:14, Psalms 104:26
Reciprocal: Genesis 1:30 - General Genesis 6:21 - General Job 39:8 - General
Cross-References
And when the child was old enough to be taken from the breast, Abraham made a great feast.
Now after these things the chief servant who had the care of the wine, and the chief bread-maker in Pharaoh's house, did something against Pharaoh's orders;
And Pharaoh was angry with his two servants, with the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker;
After three days Pharaoh will give you honour, and put you back into your place, and you will give him his cup as you did before, when you were his wine-servant.
After three days Pharaoh will take you out of prison, hanging you on a tree, so that your flesh will be food for birds.
But the wine-servant did not keep Joseph in mind or give a thought to him.
And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year of his rule, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison;
In the third year of his rule he gave a feast to all his captains and his servants; and the captains of the army of Persia and Media, the great men and the rulers of the divisions of his kingdom, were present before him;
Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,
But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias was dancing before them, and Herod was pleased with her.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Surely the mountains bring him forth food,.... Grass, which grows on mountains, and is the food of the river horse as well as of the elephant; and therefore is furnished with teeth like a scythe to mow it down; and it is not a small quantity that will suffice it, mountains only can supply it; and marvellous it is that a creature bred in a river should come out of it to seek its food on mountains. There is a creature in the northern parts, as in Russia, Greenland, c. which is called morss and sea morss, and by the description of it is much like the river horse, of the size of an ox, and having an head like one, with two large long teeth standing out of its upper jaw, and an hairy skin a, said to be an inch thick, and so tough that no lance will enter it b it comes out of the sea, and by its teeth gets up to the tops of mountains, and having fed on grass rolls itself down again into the sea; and this it does by putting its hinder feet to its teeth, and so falls from the mountain with great celerity, as on a sledge c;
where all the beasts of the field play; skip and dance, and delight in each other, being in no fear of behemoth; whether understood of the elephant or river horse; since neither of them are carnivorous creatures that feed on other animals, but on grass only; and therefore the beasts of the field may feed with them quietly and securely. Pliny d says of the elephant, that meeting with cattle in the fields, it will make signs to them not to be afraid of it, and so they will go in company together.
a Olaus Magus ut supra, (De Ritu. Septent. Gent.) l. 21. c. 19. Vid. Bochart. ut supra, (Apud Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 5. c. 14.) col. 763. Eden's Travels, p. 318. b See the North West Fox, p. 232. Voyage to Spitzbergen, p. 115, 120. Supplement, p. 194. c Olaus Magnus, ut supra, (De Ritu. Septent. Gent. l. 21. c. 19.) & Eden's Travels, ut supra. (p. 318.) d Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 7.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Surely the mountains bring him forth food - That is, though he lies commonly among the reeds and fens, and is in the water a considerable portion of his time, yet he also wanders to the mountains, and finds his food there. But the point of the remark here does not seem to be, that the mountains brought forth food for him, but that he gathered it “while all the wild beasts played around him, or sported in his very presence.” It was remarkable that an animal so large and mighty, and armed with such a set of teeth, should not be carnivorous, and that the wild beasts on the mountains should continue their sports without danger or alarm in his very presence. This fact could be accounted for partly because the “motions” of the hippopotamus were so very slow and clumsy that the wild beasts had nothing to fear from him, and could easily escape from him if he were disposed to attack them, and partly from the fact that he seems to have “preferred” vegetable food. The hippopotamus is seldom carnivorous, except when driven by extreme hunger, and in no respect is he formed to be a beast of prey. In regard to “the fact” that the hippopotamus is sometimes found in mountainous or elevated places, see Bochart.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 40:20. The mountains bring him forth food — It cannot therefore be the hippopotamus, as he is seldom found far from the rivers where he has his chief residence.
Where all the beasts of the field play. — He frequents those places where he can have most prey. He makes a mock of all the beasts of the field. They can neither resist his power, nor escape from his agility. All this answers to what we know of the mammoth, but not at all to the hippopotamus.
