George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 40:15
Play. No animal is of a milder nature. It never attacks, unless in its own defence. When a crowd of other beasts obstruct its passage, it removes them quietly with its proboscis. (Pliny vi. 9., &c.)
Play. No animal is of a milder nature. It never attacks, unless in its own defence. When a crowd of other beasts obstruct its passage, it removes them quietly with its proboscis. (Pliny vi. 9., &c.)
Verse Job 40:15. _BEHOLD NOW BEHEMOTH_] The word בהמות _behemoth_ is the plural of בהמה _behemah_, which signifies _cattle_ in general, or _graminivorous_ animals, as distinguished from חיתו _chayeth...
BEHOLD NOW BEHEMOTH - Margin, “or, the elephant, as some think.” In the close of the argument, God appeals to two animals as among the chief of his works, and as illustrating more than any others his...
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...
_Behold now behemoth_ The word, _behemoth_, may be a Heb. _plur_. of intensity, signifying _the beast_or _ox, par excellence_; but probably it is an Egyptian name Hebraized. It has been supposed to be...
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...
BEHEMOTH— The Hebrew word בהמות _behemoth_ expresses that animal which eminently partakes of the bestial or brutish nature. Bochart seems to have proved to a demonstration, that the _behemoth_ is 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...
40:15 behemoth, (c-4) Perhaps the hippopotamus....
BEHEMOTH] the word means 'a large beast.' Most scholars consider that the hippopotamus is meant, but some regard the description as more applicable to the elephant. Buxtorf, the great Hebraist, render...
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...
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...
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...
BEHEMOTH. — The identification of behemoth has always been a great difficulty with commentators. The word in Hebrew is really the natural plural of behçmâh, which means _domestic cattle;_ and this fac...
הִנֵּה ־נָ֣א בְ֭הֵמֹות אֲשֶׁר ־עָשִׂ֣יתִי עִמָּ֑ךְ...
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...
Behold now (e) behemoth, which I made (f) with thee; he eateth (g) grass as an ox. (e) This beast is thought to be the elephant, or some other, which is unknown. (f) Whom I made as well as you. (g)...
(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...
BEHOLD, NOW BEHEMOTH,.... The word is plural, and signifies beasts, and may be used to denote the chiefest and largest of beasts, and therefore is commonly understood of the elephant; and certain it i...
Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Ver. 15. _Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee_] _i.e._ The elephant, called behemoth, that is, beasts, in the plural, fo...
_Behold now behemoth_ The word properly means _beasts_, and is so understood by the LXX., whose interpretation of the verse is, ιδου θηρια παρα σοι, χορτυν ισα βουσιν εσθιουσιν, _Behold the beasts wit...
Job's Weakness Contrasted with the Strength Even of the Hippopotamus...
Behold now behemoth, a monster beast, the water-ox, or hippopotamus, WHICH I MADE WITH THEE, created by the hand of God like the human beings and living with them on the earth; HE EATETH GRASS AS AN O...
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...
BEHEMOTH: Or, the elephant, as some think...
"BEHOLD NOW, BEHEMOTH": The word rendered "behemoth" is simply. plural Hebrew word for "beast". Apparently the plural form is meant to emphasize the superlative strength of this beast. "WHICH. MADE AS...
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...
That some particular beast is designed by this word is evident from JOB 40:15, and from the peculiar characters given to him, which are not common to all great beasts. But what it is is matter of some...
Job 40:15 behemoth H930 made H6213 (H8804) eats H398 (H8799) grass H2682 ox H1241 behemoth -...
BEHEMOTH Or, the elephant, as some think....
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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 40:15 BEHEMOTH is probably a hippopotamus. Verses Job 40:16 can be read as poetic exaggeration....
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...
Genesis 1:24; Job 39:8; Job 40:20; Psalms 104:14...
Behemoth — Very learned men take the leviathan to be the crocodile, and the behemoth to be the river — horse, which may fitly be joined with the crocodile, both being well known to Joband his friends,...