Job 40:21

In 11 translations

BSB

He lies under the lotus plants, hidden among the reeds of the marsh.Or bramble bushes; also in verse 22

KJV

He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

WEB

He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.

ASV

He lieth under the lotus-trees, In the covert of the reed, and the fen.

LSV

He lies down under shades, || In a secret place of reed and marsh.

YLT

Under shades he lieth down, In a secret place of reed and mire.

DBY

He lieth under lotus-bushes, in the covert of the reed and fen:

DRC40:16

He sleepeth under the shadow, in the covert of the reed, and in moist places.

GNV40:16

Lyeth hee vnder the trees in the couert of the reede and fennes?

JPS

He lieth under the lotus-trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

LXXE

He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush.

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Original-language editions

WLC

תַּֽחַת־צֶאֱלִ֥ים יִשְׁכָּ֑ב בְּסֵ֖תֶר קָנֶ֣ה וּבִצָּֽה׃

LXX-Br

Ὑπὸ παντοδαπὰ δένδρα κοιμᾶται, παρὰ πάπυρον καὶ κάλαμον καὶ βούτομον.

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• Isaiah 35:7The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.
• Isaiah 19:6–7The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither. The bulrushes by the Nile, by the mouth of the river, and all the fields sown along the Nile, will wither, blow…

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