Job 40:20 KJV — MannaFest

Job 40:20

Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

KJV

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ASV

Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the beasts of the field do play.

WEB

The hills yield him their produce, while all the beasts of the field play nearby.

YLT

For food do mountains bear for him, And all the beasts of the field play there.

DBT

For the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

About this book

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Job — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.

Author: Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
Date: Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.

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7 verses on the floor

Genesis 1:30
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Psalms 104:14
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
Psalms 104:26
There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
Job 40:15
Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
Psalms 147:8–9
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

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A humbling challenge which God gave to Job. After he had heaped up many hard questions upon him, to show him, by his manifest ignorance in the works of nature, what an incompetent judge he was of the methods and designs of Providence, he clenches the nail with one demand more, which stands by itself here as the application of the whole.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

(2.) To commend living upon herbs and fruits without flesh, according to the original appointment of man's food, Gen. i. Even the strength of an elephant, as of a horse and an ox, may be supported without flesh; and why not that of a man?

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The mountain is not his usual haunt. BOCHART says it is sometimes found there (?). beasts . . . play--a graphic trait: though armed with such teeth, he lets the beasts play near him unhurt, for his food is grass.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

On the other hand, Job 40:21, 22 are characteristic of the amphibious river horse. So leviathan (the twisting animal), Job 41:1, is a generalized term for cetacea, pythons, saurians of the neighboring seas and rivers, including the crocodile, which is the most prominent, and is often associated with the river horse by old writers.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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 sport themselves by him, being taught by experience that he is gentle and harmless.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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