It takes. tremendous amount of vegetation to feed this animal, possibly the allusion to the mountains is that this animal feeds on the large masses of vegetation that float downstream from the mountains, and because he eats only vegetation, the other animals can play safely near him.
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...
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...
CHAPTER 40 _ 1. The answer demanded (Job 40:1)_ 2. Job's answer (Job 40:3) 3. Jehovah's appeal to Job (Job 40:6) 4. Behold behemoth! (Job 40:
JOB 40:15 TO JOB 41:34. BEHEMOTH AND LEVIATHAN. Most scholars regard this passage as a later addition to the poem. The point of Job 40:8 is God's reply to Job's criticism of His righteousness; the des...
These verses are connected, 19. He is the chief of the ways of God; He that made him provideth him with his sword; 20. For the mountains, &c. By "chief," lit. _beginning_, is meant the first in ma...
The verse seems to mean that in order to satisfy his hunger the animal depastures whole mountains, tracts where all the beasts of the field play. The hippopotamus is said to wander to the higher groun...
Job 40:6 to Job 42:6. The Lord's Second Answer to Job out of the Storm Shall Man charge God with unrighteousness in His Rule of the World? All that the first speech of the Lord touched upon was the...
2. Jehovah relates more marvels of his creation. (Job 40:15, Job 41:34) TEXT 40:15-24 15 BEHOLD NOW, BEHEMOTH, WHICH I MADE AS WELL AS THEE; He eateth grass as an ox. 16 Lo now, his strength is in...
_BEHOLD NOW BEHEMOTH, WHICH I MADE WITH THEE; HE EATETH GRASS AS AN OX._ God shows that if Job cannot bring under control the lower animals, of which he selects the two most striking (Behemoth on lan...
THE SECOND SPEECH OF THE ALMIGHTY Job, we know, in his anxiety to prove his integrity had been led into casting doubts on the justice of God's government of the world. He is here ironically invited t...
MOUNTAINS] Unlike the hippopotamus, the elephant is found in hill forests....
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 40 GOD CONTINUES HIS SPEECH...
In fact, Bible students are not sure about the animal in this passage. In the original language (called Hebrew), the animal’s name simply means ‘a great animal’. But the hippo behaves as God describes...
כִּֽי ־ב֭וּל הָרִ֣ים יִשְׂאוּ ־לֹ֑ו וְֽ כָל
XXVIII. THE RECONCILIATION Job 38:1 - Job 42:6 THE main argument of the address ascribed to the Almighty is contained in Chapter s 38 and 39 and in the opening verses of chapter 42. Job makes submis...
“HAST THOU AN ARM LIKE GOD?” Job 40:1 God seemed to await Job's reply to His questions. Job had protested that he would fill his mouth with arguments, but none was forthcoming. That vision of God had...
There is a pause in the unveiling as Jehovah speaks directly to His servant and asks for an answer to the things that He has said. The answer is full of suggestiveness. The man who in mighty speech an...
Leviathan: the whale, or some sea monster. (Challoner) --- Protestants' marginal note, "or a whirlpool." (Haydock) --- But some animal is designated; and Bochart understands the crocodile, which agree...
(15) В¶ 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 navel of his belly. (17) He moveth his tail like a ced...
God Speaks Job Repents I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we covered a lot of territory! 1. We finished with Elihu's speeches to Job and found that, although he was a lot more accurate in what he had to...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 38 THROUGH 42. Jehovah then speaks, and addressing Job, carries on the subject. He makes Job sensible of his nothingness. Job confesses himself to be vile, an...
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 mo...
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. Ver. 20. _Surely the mountains briny him forth food_] And food enough, though he be of a huge body. Learn we to trus...
_The mountains bring him forth food_ Though this creature be so vastly large, and require much food, and no man careth for it, yet God provides for it out of his own stores, and makes the desert mount...
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, being obliged to provide food for him, if need be, WHERE ALL THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD PLAY, unhurt by him, since he is not a beast of prey, but a herbivorous...
Job's Weakness Contrasted with the Strength Even of the Hippopotamus...
GOD'S CHALLENGE AND JOB'S RESPONSE (vv.1-5) Job had said that if God would only listen to him, he would present his whole case in showing how God was unfair in His dealings (ch.33:3-5). Therefore n...
15-24 God, for the further proving of his own power, describes two vast animals, far exceeding man in bulk and strength. Behemoth signifies beasts. Most understand it of an animal well known in Egypt...
Though this creature be vastly great, and require much food, and no man careth for it; yet God provides for it out of his own stores, and makes even desert mountains to afford him sufficient sustenanc...
Job 40:20 mountains H2022 yield H5375 (H8799) food H944 beasts H2416 field H7704 play H7832 (H8762) the mo
CONTENTS: God's challenge to Job continued. Job's answer. CHARACTERS: God, Job. CONCLUSION: A real vision of God's power and wisdom changes men's opinions of themselves and silences their disputes w...
Job 40:4. _Behold, I am vile._ Job boldly answered his friends; but when the Lord speaks, he lays his mouth in the dust. Job 40:15. _Behold now behemoth._ Here sacred criticism is divided in opinion;...
_Moreover, the Lord answered Job, and said._ JEHOVAH’S ANSWER Its language has reached, at times, the “high-water mark” of poetry and beauty. Nothing can exceed its dignity, its force, its majesty, t...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 40:6 Job knew what it was like to be misunderstood and misjudged by his friends. The Lord now shows Job how he had misjudged the Lord’s rule over the world (Job 40:6). Job had displaye...
NOTES Job 40:15. “_Behold turn behemoth_.” Various opinions as to what is meant by the term “behemoth.” According to GESENIUS, בְּהֵמוֹת (_behemoth_) is the plural of בְּהֵמָה (_behemah_, from the unu...
EXPOSITION JOB 40:1 Between the first and the second part of the Divine discourse, at the end of which Job wholly humbles himself (Job 42:1), is interposed a short appeal on the part of tile Almighty...
Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said, Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? (Job 40:1-2) "Job, are you trying to instruct me?" Isn't that ridiculous? Can you think of anybody tryi...
Job 40:15; Psalms 104:14; Psalms 104:26; Psalms 147:8; Psalms 147:9
Mountains — Though he lives most in the water, yet he often fetches his food from the land, and from the mountains or hills, which are nigh the river Nile. Play — They not only feed securely, but spor...