Ayub 40:21

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

(40-16) Di bawah tumbuhan teratai ia menderum, tersembunyi dalam gelagah dan paya.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(40-16) Di bawah tumbuhan teratai ia menderum, tersembunyi dalam gelagah dan paya.

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Contextual Overview

¹⁵ Beholde the beaste Behemoth, who I made with thee, which eateth haye as an oxe: ¹⁶ Lo how his strength is in his loynes, and what power he hath in the nauil of his body. ¹⁷ When he wyll, he spreadeth out his tayle lyke a Cedar tree, all his sinowes are stiffe. ¹⁸ His bones are lyke pipes of brasse, yea his bones are lyke staues of iron. ¹⁹ He is the chiefe of the wayes of God, he that made him wyl make his sword to approche vnto him. ²⁰ Surely the mountaines bring him foorth grasse, where all the beastes of the fielde take their pastime. ²¹ He resteth him in the shade, in the couerte of the reede and fennes. ²² The trees couer him with their shadowe, and the wyllowes of the brooke compasse him about. ²³ Beholde, he drinketh vp whole ryuers and feareth not, he thinketh that he can drawe vp Iordane into his mouth. ²⁴ He taketh it with his eyes, and yet the hunter putteth a bridle into his nose.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the reed: Isaiah 19:6, Isaiah 19:7, Isaiah 35:7

Cross-References

Genesis 40:13
For within three dayes shall Pharao lyft vp thine head, and restore thee into thine office agayne, and thou shalt deliuer Pharaos cup into his hande after the olde maner when thou wast his butler.

Nehemiah 2:1
It came to passe, that in the moneth Nisan in the twentith yere of king Arthaxerxes, the wine stoode before him: and I toke vp the wine, and gaue it vnto the king: And I had not ben before heauy in his presence.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed,

and fens. This may be thought to agree very well with the river horse, the inhabitant of the Nile, where reeds in great plenty grew, and adjoining to which were fenny and marshy places, and shady trees; and, as historians relate e, this creature takes its lodging among high reeds, and in shady places; yea, the reeds and sugar canes, and the leaves of the papyrus, are part of the food on which it lives; and hence the hunters of them sometimes cover their bait with a reed to take them; though it must be allowed that the elephant delights to be about rivers, and in clayey and fenny places f, and therefore Aelianus g says it may be called the fenny animal.

e Ammian. Marcellin. l. 22. Bellonius & Achilles Tatius apud Bochart ut supra. (Apud Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 5. c. 14. col. 760.) f Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 46. Plin. l. 8. c. 10. Aelian. de Animal. l. 9. c. 56. g lbid. l. 9. c. 24.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He lieth under the shady trees - Referring to his usually inactive and lazy life. He is disposed to lie down in the shade, and especially in the vegetable growth in marshy places on the banks of lakes and rivers, rather than to dwell in the open field or in the upland forest. This account agrees well with the habits of the hippopotamus. The word here and in Job 40:22 rendered “shady trees” (צאלים tse'eliym), is by Gesenius, Noyes, Prof. Lee, and Schultens, translated “lotus,” and “wild lotus.” The Vulgate, Syriac, Rosenmuller, Aben-Ezra, and others, render it “shady trees.” It occurs nowhere else in the Scriptures, and it is difficult, therefore, to determine its meaning. According to Schultens and Gesenius, it is derived from the obsolete word צאל tsā'al, “to be thin, slender;” and hence, in Arabic it is applied to the “wild lotus” - a plant that grows abundantly on the banks of the Nile, and that often serves the wild beasts of the desert for a place of retreat. It is not very important whether it be rendered the “lotus,” or “shades,” though the probable derivation of the word seems to favor the former.

In the covert of the reed - It is well known that reeds abounded on the banks of the Nile. These would furnish a convenient and a natural retreat for the hippopotamus.

And fens - בצה bitstsâh - “marsh, marshy places.” This passage proves that the elephant is not here referred to. He is never found in such places.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 40:21. He lieth under the shady trees — This and the following verses refer to certain habits of the behemoth, with which we are and must be unacquainted,