the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Job 40:20
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Surely the mountains bring it food,And all the beasts of the field play there.
"Surely the mountains bring him food, And all the beasts of the field play there.
Surely the mountaines bring him foorth grasse, where all the beastes of the fielde take their pastime.
For the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
Surely the mountains yield food for him, And all the beasts of the field play there.
For the mountains yield food for him, and all the beasts of the field play there.
He eats the grass that grows on the hills where the wild animals play.
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the animals of the field do play.
Surely the mountaines bring him foorth foode: where all the beasts of the field play.
yt the mountaynes shulde geue him grasse, where all the beastes off the felde take their pastyme.
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the beasts of the field do play.
He takes the produce of the mountains, where all the beasts of the field are at play.
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the beasts of the field play.
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play.
Undisturbed, it eats grass while the other animals play nearby.
The mountains produce food for him there, where all the wild animals play.
Surely the mountaines bring him foorth grasse, where all the beastes of the fielde play.
He roams about the mountains, and all the wild beasts of the field lie down under his protection.
"Surely the mountains bring him food, And all the wild animals play there.
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the animals of the field do play.
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, and all the beasts of the field play there.
The mountains offer it their best food, where all the wild animals play.
For sure the mountains bring food to him where all the animals of the field play.
But wilt thou catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?
Surely the mountains bring him forth food; where all the beasts of the field do play.
The hills yield him their produce, while all the beasts of the field play nearby.
For the mountains yield food for it where all the wild animals play.
Surely the mountains bring, produce, to him, where, all the wild beasts of the field, do play;
(40-15) To him the mountains bring forth grass: there all the beasts of the field shall play.
Yes, the mountains yield produce for it, and all wild animals play there.
For the mountains yield food for him where all the wild beasts play.
"Indeed the mountains bring him food, And all the animals of the field play there.
The hills, where the wild animals play, provide food for it.
Grass to feed him grows on the hills where wild beasts play.
The hills yield food for him, while all sorts of wild animals play there.
Hillis beren eerbis to this behemot; alle the beestis of the feeld pleien there.
For food do mountains bear for him, And all the beasts of the field play there.
For the mountains yield food for him where all the wild beasts play.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the mountains: Job 40:15, Psalms 147:8, Psalms 147:9
where: Psalms 104:14, Psalms 104:26
Reciprocal: Genesis 1:30 - General Genesis 6:21 - General Job 39:8 - General
Cross-References
And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.
And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.
And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 mow it down; and it is not a small quantity that will suffice it, mountains only can supply it; and marvellous it is that a creature bred in a river should come out of it to seek its food on mountains. There is a creature in the northern parts, as in Russia, Greenland, c. which is called morss and sea morss, and by the description of it is much like the river horse, of the size of an ox, and having an head like one, with two large long teeth standing out of its upper jaw, and an hairy skin a, said to be an inch thick, and so tough that no lance will enter it b it comes out of the sea, and by its teeth gets up to the tops of mountains, and having fed on grass rolls itself down again into the sea; and this it does by putting its hinder feet to its teeth, and so falls from the mountain with great celerity, as on a sledge c;
where all the beasts of the field play; skip and dance, and delight in each other, being in no fear of behemoth; whether understood of the elephant or river horse; since neither of them are carnivorous creatures that feed on other animals, but on grass only; and therefore the beasts of the field may feed with them quietly and securely. Pliny d says of the elephant, that meeting with cattle in the fields, it will make signs to them not to be afraid of it, and so they will go in company together.
a Olaus Magus ut supra, (De Ritu. Septent. Gent.) l. 21. c. 19. Vid. Bochart. ut supra, (Apud Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 5. c. 14.) col. 763. Eden's Travels, p. 318. b See the North West Fox, p. 232. Voyage to Spitzbergen, p. 115, 120. Supplement, p. 194. c Olaus Magnus, ut supra, (De Ritu. Septent. Gent. l. 21. c. 19.) & Eden's Travels, ut supra. (p. 318.) d Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 7.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 finds his food there. But the point of the remark here does not seem to be, that the mountains brought forth food for him, but that he gathered it “while all the wild beasts played around him, or sported in his very presence.” It was remarkable that an animal so large and mighty, and armed with such a set of teeth, should not be carnivorous, and that the wild beasts on the mountains should continue their sports without danger or alarm in his very presence. This fact could be accounted for partly because the “motions” of the hippopotamus were so very slow and clumsy that the wild beasts had nothing to fear from him, and could easily escape from him if he were disposed to attack them, and partly from the fact that he seems to have “preferred” vegetable food. The hippopotamus is seldom carnivorous, except when driven by extreme hunger, and in no respect is he formed to be a beast of prey. In regard to “the fact” that the hippopotamus is sometimes found in mountainous or elevated places, see Bochart.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
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 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.
