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The LORD Challenges Job Again

Job 40:20

In 11 translations

BSB
The hills yield him their produce, while all the beasts of the field play nearby.
KJV
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
WEB
Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.
ASV
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the beasts of the field do play.
LSV
For mountains bear food for him, || And all the beasts of the field play there.
YLT
For food do mountains bear for him, And all the beasts of the field play there.
DBY
For the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
DRC40:15
To him the mountains bring forth grass: there all the beasts of the field shall play.
GNV40:15
Surely the mountaines bring him foorth grasse, where all the beastes of the fielde play.
JPS
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, and all the beasts of the field play there.
LXXE
And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
כִּֽי־ב֭וּל הָרִ֣ים יִשְׂאוּ־ל֑וֹ וְֽכָל־חַיַּ֥ת הַ֝שָּׂדֶ֗ה יְשַֽׂחֲקוּ־שָֽׁם׃
LXX-Br
Ἐπελθὼν δὲ ἐπʼ ὄρος ἀκρότομον, ἐποίησε χαρμονὴν τετράποσιν ἐν τῷ ταρτάρῳ.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 104:14He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
  • Psalms 104:26There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.
  • Job 40:15Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you. He feeds on grass like an ox.
  • Psalms 147:8–9who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills. He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 40:15 in some Bibles
  • 40:20 in most Bibles

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