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Brenton's Septuagint

Job 40:22

Will he address thee with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Thompson Chain Reference - Trees;   Willows;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Brooks;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Behemoth;   Leviathan;   Willow;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Trees;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Behemoth;   Willows;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Behemoth;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Behemoth;   Hippopotamus;   Job, the Book of;   Lotus;   Plants in the Bible;   Shadow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Willow;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Willow,;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Behemoth;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Be'hemoth;   Willows;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Lotus Trees;   Shade;   Willows;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Behemoth;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Lotus plants cover him with their shade;the willows by the brook surround him.
Hebrew Names Version
The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.
King James Version
The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
English Standard Version
For his shade the lotus trees cover him; the willows of the brook surround him.
New Century Version
The lotus plants hide it in their shadow; the poplar trees by the streams surround it.
New English Translation
The lotus trees conceal it in their shadow; the poplars by the stream conceal it.
Amplified Bible
"The lotus plants cover him with their shade; The willows of the brook surround him.
New American Standard Bible
"The lotus plants cover him with shade; The willows of the brook surround him.
World English Bible
The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Can the trees couer him with their shadow? or can the willowes of the riuer compasse him about?
Legacy Standard Bible
The lotus plants cover it with shade;The willows of the brook surround it.
Berean Standard Bible
The lotus plants conceal him in their shade; the willows of the brook surround him.
Contemporary English Version
or hides among reeds in the swamp.
Complete Jewish Bible
the lotus bushes cover him with their shade, and the willows by the stream surround him.
Darby Translation
Lotus-bushes cover him with their shade; the willows of the brook surround him.
Easy-to-Read Version
The lotus plants hide him in their shade. He lives under the willow trees that grow near the river.
George Lamsa Translation
The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook encircle him.
Good News Translation
The thorn bushes and the willows by the stream give him shelter in their shade.
Lexham English Bible
The lotus trees cover it with their shade; the wadi's poplar trees surround it.
Literal Translation
the lotus trees cover him in its shadow; the willows of the torrent circle him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
hyde him with their shadowe, and the wylowes of the broke couer him rounde aboute.
American Standard Version
The lotus-trees cover him with their shade; The willows of the brook compass him about.
Bible in Basic English
He is covered by the branches of the trees; the grasses of the stream are round him.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The lotus-trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
King James Version (1611)
The shady trees couer him with their shaddow: the willowes of the brooke compasse him about.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The trees couer him with their shadowe, and the wyllowes of the brooke compasse him about.
English Revised Version
The lotus trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Schadewis hilen his schadewe; the salewis of the ryuer cumpassen hym.
Update Bible Version
The lotus-trees cover him with their shade; The willows of the brook compass him about.
Webster's Bible Translation
The shady trees cover him [with] their shadow; the willows of the brook encompass him.
New King James Version
The lotus trees cover him with their shade; The willows by the brook surround him.
New Living Translation
The lotus plants give it shade among the willows beside the stream.
New Life Bible
He lies in the shadow of the lotus plants, with the willow trees of the river around him.
New Revised Standard
The lotus trees cover it for shade; the willows of the wadi surround it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The lotus-trees cover him with their shade, the willows of the torrent-bed compass him about;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(40-17) The shades cover his shadow, the willows of the brook shall compass him about.
Revised Standard Version
For his shade the lotus trees cover him; the willows of the brook surround him.
Young's Literal Translation
Cover him do shades, [with] their shadow, Cover him do willows of the brook.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The lotus plants cover him with shade; The willows of the brook surround him.

Contextual Overview

15 And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep. 16 He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush. 17 And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and so do the bushes of the field. 18 If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trust that Jordan will rush up into his mouth. 19 Yet one shall take him in his sight; one shall catch him with a cord, and pierce his nose. 20 But wilt thou catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose? 21 Or wilt thou fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp? 22 Will he address thee with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant? 23 And will he make a covenant with thee? and wilt thou take him for a perpetual servant? 24 And wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the willows: Leviticus 23:40, Isaiah 15:7, Ezekiel 17:5

Cross-References

Genesis 40:8
And they said to him, We have seen a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, Is not the interpretation of them through god? tell them than to me.
Genesis 40:11
And the cup of Pharao was in my hand; and I took the bunch of grapes, and squeezed it into the cup, and gave the cup into Pharao’s hand.
Genesis 40:13
Yet three days and Pharao shall remember thy office, and he shall restore thee to thy place of chief cupbearer, and thou shalt give the cup of Pharao into his hand, according to thy former high place, as thou wast wont to be cupbearer.
Genesis 40:19
Yet three days, and Pharao shall take away thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree, and the birds of the sky shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
Genesis 40:23
Yet did not the chief cupbearer remember Joseph, but forgot him.
Genesis 41:16
And Joseph answered Pharao and said, Without God an answer of safety shall not be given to Pharao.
Jeremiah 23:28
The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream; and he in whom is my word spoken to him, let him tell my word truly: what is the chaff to the corn? so are my words, saith the Lord.
Daniel 2:30
Moreover, this mystery has not been revealed to me by reason of wisdom which is in me beyond all others living, but for the sake of making known the interpretation to the king, that thou mightest know the thoughts of thine heart.
Daniel 5:12
For there is an excellent spirit in him, and sense and understanding in him, interpreting dreams as he does, and answering hard questions, and solving difficulties: it is Daniel, and the king gave him the name of Baltasar: now then let him be called, and he shall tell thee the interpretation of the writing.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The shady trees cover him [with] their shadow,.... Under which it lies, as in Job 40:21; which is thought not so well to agree with the elephant, since, according to Aelianus h and other writers, it lies not down, at least but rarely, but sleeps standing; it being very troublesome to it to lie down and rise up again; and besides it is represented by some authors i as higher than the trees, and therefore this is supposed to agree better with the river horse; especially since it follows,

the willows of the brook compass him about; or the willows of the Nile, as some choose to render it; which would put it out of all doubt that the river horse is intended, if it could be established, it being an inhabitant of that river; and yet the above writer k speaks of elephants, when grown old, seeking large thick and shady woods to take up their abode in.

h Ibid. (Aelian. de Animal.) c. 31. i Ibid. l. 7. c. 6. k Ibid. c. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The shady trees - Probably the “lote-trees;” see the note at Job 40:21. The same word is used here.

The willow-trees of the brook - Of the “stream,” or “rivulet.” The Hebrew word (נחל nachal) means rather “a wady;” a gorge or gulley, which is swollen with torrents in the winter, but which is frequently dry in summer; see the notes at Job 6:15. Willows grew commonly on the banks of rivers. They could not be cultivated in the desert; Isaiah 15:7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 40:22. The willows of the brook compass him — This would agree well enough with the hippopotamus.


 
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