Job 40:22

JPS Old Testament

The lotus-trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

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.

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.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Will he address thee with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant?

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 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. ¹⁶ Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the stays of his body. ¹⁷ He straineth his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together. ¹⁸ His bones are as pipes of brass; his gristles are like bars of iron. ¹⁹ He is the beginning of the ways of God; He only that made him can make His sword to approach unto him. ²⁰ Surely the mountains bring him forth food, and all the beasts of the field play there. ²¹ He lieth under the lotus-trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. ²² The lotus-trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. ²³ Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; he is confident, though the Jordan rush forth to his mouth. ²⁴ Shall any take him by his eyes, or pierce through his nose with a snare? Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fish-hook? or press down his tongue with a cord? Canst thou put a ring into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a hook? Will he make many supplications unto thee? or will he speak soft words unto thee? Will he make a covenant with thee, that thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever? Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? Will the bands of fishermen make a banquet of him? Will they part him among the merchants? Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish-spears? Lay thy hand upon him; think upon the battle, thou wilt do so no more.

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 unto him: 'We have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it.' And Joseph said unto them: 'Do not interpretations belong to God? tell it me, I pray you.'

Genesis 40:11
and Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.'

Genesis 40:13
within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head, and restore thee unto thine office; and thou shalt give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

Genesis 40:19
within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.'

Genesis 40:23
Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgot him.

Genesis 41:16
And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying: 'It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.'

Jeremiah 23:28
The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath My word; let him speak My word faithfully. What hath the straw to do with the wheat? saith the LORD.

Daniel 2:30
But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that thou mayest know the thoughts of thy heart.

Daniel 5:12
forasmuch as a surpassing spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and declaring of riddles, and loosing of knots, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will declare the interpretation.'

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.