the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
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THE MESSAGE
Job 40:16
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Look at the strength of his backand the power in the muscles of his belly.
Look now, his strength is in his loins, His force is in the muscles of his belly.
Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly.
Look at the strength it has in its body; the muscles of its stomach are powerful.
Look at its strength in its loins, and its power in the muscles of its belly.
"See now, his strength is in his loins And his power is in the muscles and sinews of his belly.
"Behold, his strength in his waist, And his power in the muscles of his belly.
Look now, his strength is in his loins, His force is in the muscles of his belly.
Behold now, his strength is in his loynes, and his force is in the nauil of his belly.
Behold now, its power in its loinsAnd its vigor in the muscles of its belly.
See the strength of his loins and the power in the muscles of his belly.
but look at the mighty muscles in its body
What strength he has in his loins! What power in his stomach muscles!
Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the muscles of his belly.
But he has great strength in his body. The muscles in his stomach are powerful.
Lo, his strength is in his loins, and his tail stands erect like a cedar tree.
but what strength there is in his body, and what power there is in his muscles!
Look, its strength is in its loins and its power in the muscles of its stomach.
see, now, his strength is in his loins, and his force in the muscles of his belly;
lo, how stronge he is in his loynes, and what power he hath in the nauell of his body.
Lo now, his strength is in his loins, And his force is in the muscles of his belly.
His strength is in his body, and his force in the muscles of his stomach.
Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the stays of his body.
Loe now, his strength is in his loynes, and his force is in the nauell of his belly.
Lo how his strength is in his loynes, and what power he hath in the nauil of his body.
He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush.
Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the muscles of his belly.
His strengthe is in hise leendis, and his vertu is in the nawle of his wombe.
See now, his strength is in his loins, And his force is in the muscles of his belly.
Lo now, his strength [is] in his loins, and his force [is] in the navel of his belly.
See now, his strength is in his hips, And his power is in his stomach muscles.
See its powerful loins and the muscles of its belly.
See, his strength is in his body. His power is in his stomach.
Its strength is in its loins, and its power in the muscles of its belly.
Behold, I pray thee, his strength in his loins, and his force, in the muscles of his belly;
(40-11) His strength is in his loins, and his force in the navel of his belly.
Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly.
Lo, I pray thee, his power [is] in his loins, And his strength in the muscles of his belly.
"Behold now, his strength in his loins And his power in the muscles of his belly.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Reciprocal: Job 41:22 - General
Cross-References
As time went on, it happened that the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt crossed their master, the king of Egypt. Pharaoh was furious with his two officials, the head cupbearer and the head baker, and put them in custody under the captain of the guard; it was the same jail where Joseph was held. The captain of the guard assigned Joseph to see to their needs. After they had been in custody for a while, the king's cupbearer and baker, while being held in the jail, both had a dream on the same night, each dream having its own meaning. When Joseph arrived in the morning, he noticed that they were feeling low. So he asked them, the two officials of Pharaoh who had been thrown into jail with him, "What's wrong? Why the long faces?" They said, "We dreamed dreams and there's no one to interpret them." Joseph said, "Don't interpretations come from God? Tell me the dreams." First the head cupbearer told his dream to Joseph: "In my dream there was a vine in front of me with three branches on it: It budded, blossomed, and the clusters ripened into grapes. I was holding Pharaoh's cup; I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh's cup, and gave the cup to Pharaoh." Joseph said, "Here's the meaning. The three branches are three days. Within three days, Pharaoh will get you out of here and put you back to your old work—you'll be giving Pharaoh his cup just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer. Only remember me when things are going well with you again—tell Pharaoh about me and get me out of this place. I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews. And since I've been here, I've done nothing to deserve being put in this hole." When the head baker saw how well Joseph's interpretation turned out, he spoke up: "My dream went like this: I saw three wicker baskets on my head; the top basket had assorted pastries from the bakery and birds were picking at them from the basket on my head." Joseph said, "This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days; within three days Pharaoh will take off your head, impale you on a post, and the birds will pick your bones clean." And sure enough, on the third day it was Pharaoh's birthday and he threw a feast for all his servants. He set the head cupbearer and the head baker in places of honor in the presence of all the guests. Then he restored the head cupbearer to his cupbearing post; he handed Pharaoh his cup just as before. And then he impaled the head baker on a post, following Joseph's interpretations exactly. But the head cupbearer never gave Joseph another thought; he forgot all about him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Lo now, his strength [is] in his loins,.... The strength of the elephant is well known, being able to carry a castle on its back, with a number of men therein; but what follows does not seem so well to agree with it;
and his force [is] in the navel of his belly; since the belly of the elephant is very tender; by means of which the rhinoceros, its enemy, in its fight with it, has the advantage of it, by getting under its belly, and ripping it up with its horn s. In like manner Eleazar the Jew killed one of the elephants of Antiochus, by getting between its legs, and thrusting his sword into its navel t; which fell and killed him with the weight of it. On the other hand, the "river horse" is covered with a skin all over, the hardest and strongest of all creatures u, as not to be pierced with spears or arrows w; and of it dried were made helmets, shields, spears, and polished darts x. That which Monsieur Thevenot y saw had several shot fired at it before it fell, for the bullets hardly pierced through its skin. We made several shot at him, says another traveller z, but to no purpose; for they would glance from him as from a wall. And indeed the elephant is said to have such a hard scaly skin as to resist the spear a: and Pliny b, though he speaks of the hide of the river horse being so thick that spears are made of it; yet of the hide of the elephant, as having targets made of that, which are impenetrable.
s Aelian. de Amimal. l. 17. c. 44. Plin. l. 8. c. 10, 20. Vid. Solin. c. 38. Diodor. Sic. l. 3. p. 167. & Strabo. Geograph. l. 16. p. 533. t Joseph. Ben Gorion. Hist. Heb. l. 3. c. 20. 1 Maccab. vi. 46. u Diodor. Sic. ut supra. (l. 3. p. 167) Plin. l. 8. c. 25. w Ptolem. Geograph. l. 7. c. 2. Fragment. Ctesiae ad Calcem Herodot. p. 701. Ed. Gronov. Boius apud Kircher. China cum Momument. p. 193. x Herodot. ut supra. (p. 701) Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 2. c. 7. Plin. l. 11. c. 39. y Travels, part 1. c. 72. z Dampier's Voyages, vol. 2. part 2. p. 105. a Heliodor. Ethiop. Hist. l. 9. c. 18. b Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 39. Vid. Vossium in Melam. de Situ Orbis, l. 1. c. 5. p. 28.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Lo now, his strength is in his loins - The inspection of the figure of the hippopotamus will show the accuracy of this. The strength of the elephant is in the neck; of the lion in the paw; of the horse and ox in the shoulders; but the principal power of the river-horse is in the loins; compare Nahum 2:1. This passage is one that proves that the elephant cannot be referred to.
And his force is in the navel of his belly - The word which is here rendered “navel” (שׁריר shârı̂yr) means properly “firm, hard, tough,” and in the plural form, which occurs here, means the “firm,” or “tough” parts of the belly. It is not used to denote the “navel” in any place in the Bible, and should not have been so rendered here. The reference is to the muscles and tendons of this part of the body, and perhaps particularly to the fact that the hippopotamus, by crawling so much on his belly among the stones of the stream or on land, acquires a special hardness or strength in those parts of the body. This clearly proves that the elephant is not intended. In that animal, this is the most tender part of the body. Pliny and Solinus both remark that the elephant has a thick, hard skin on the back, but that the skin of the belly is soft and tender. Pliny says (“Hist. Nat.” Lib. viii. c. 20), that the rhinoceros, when about to attack an elephant, “seeks his belly, as if he knew that that was the most tender part.” So Aelian, “Hist.” Lib. xvii. c. 44; see Bochart, as above.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 40:16. His strength is in his loins — This refers to his great agility, notwithstanding his bulk; by the strength of his loins he was able to take vast springs, and make astonishing bounds.
