Job 40:20 BSB — MannaFest

Job 40:20

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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 the field play - He frequents those places where he can have most prey. He makes a mock of all the beasts of the field. They can neither resist his power, nor escape from his agility. All this answers to what we know of the mammoth, but not at all to the hippopotamus.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

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.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
ב֭וּל	vul	[the] beast[s] of	H944 →
הָרִ֣ים	ha.Rim	[the] mountains	H2022 →
יִשְׂאוּ־	yis.'u-	they carry	H5375 →
ל֑וֹ	lo	to it
וְֽכָל־	ve.khol	and every	H3605 →
חַיַּ֥ת	chai.Yat	<the> animal of	H2416 →
הַ֝שָּׂדֶ֗ה	ha.sa.Deh	the field	H7704 →
יְשַֽׂחֲקוּ־	ye.sa.cha.ku-	they play	H7832 →
שָֽׁם׃	Sham	there	H8033 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 104:14
He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
leads to
- Psalms 136:25
  He gives food to every creature. His loving devotion endures forever.
- Psalms 147:8–9
  who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
- Psalms 145:15–16
  The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.
- Job 28:5
  Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.
- 1 Corinthians 3:7
  So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
Through
Psalms 104:26
There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.
leads to
- Psalms 107:23
  Others went out to sea in ships, conducting trade on the mighty waters.
- Psalms 74:14
  You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.
- Isaiah 27:1
  In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.

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Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

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About Job