Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The hills bring it their produce, and all the wild animals play nearby. New Living Translation The mountains offer it their best food, where all the wild animals play. English Standard Version For the mountains yield food for him where all the wild beasts play. Berean Standard Bible The hills yield him their produce, while all the beasts of the field play nearby. King James Bible Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. New King James Version Surely the mountains yield food for him, And all the beasts of the field play there. New American Standard Bible “Indeed the mountains bring him food, And all the animals of the field play there. NASB 1995 “Surely the mountains bring him food, And all the beasts of the field play there. NASB 1977 “Surely the mountains bring him food, And all the beasts of the field play there. Legacy Standard Bible Surely the mountains bring it food, And all the beasts of the field play there. Amplified Bible “Surely the mountains bring him food, And all the wild animals play there. Christian Standard Bible The hills yield food for him, while all sorts of wild animals play there. Holman Christian Standard Bible The hills yield food for him, while all sorts of wild animals play there. American Standard Version Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the beasts of the field do play. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And the abundance of the mountains carry to him, and all the animals of the wilderness Brenton Septuagint Translation And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep. Contemporary English Version Undisturbed, it eats grass while the other animals play nearby. * Douay-Rheims Bible To him the mountains bring forth grass : there all the beasts of the field shall play. English Revised Version Surely the mountains bring him forth food; where all the beasts of the field do play. GOD'S WORD® Translation The hills bring it food, and all the wild animals play there. Good News Translation Grass to feed him grows on the hills where wild beasts play. International Standard Version Mountains produce food for him, where all the wild animals frolic. JPS Tanakh 1917 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, And all the beasts of the field play there. Literal Standard Version For mountains bear food for him, | And all the beasts of the field play there. Majority Standard Bible The hills yield him their produce, while all the beasts of the field play nearby. New American Bible For the mountains bring him produce, and all wild animals make sport there. NET Bible For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play. New Revised Standard Version For the mountains yield food for it where all the wild animals play. New Heart English Bible Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play. Webster's Bible Translation Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. World English Bible Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play. Young's Literal Translation For food do mountains bear for him, And all the beasts of the field play there. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Job Humbles Himself Before the LORD…19He is the foremost of God’s works; only his Maker can draw the sword against him. 20 The hills yield him their produce, while all the beasts of the field play nearby. 21He lies under the lotus plants, hidden among the reeds of the marsh.… Cross References Job 40:21 He lies under the lotus plants, hidden among the reeds of the marsh. Psalm 104:14 He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth: Psalm 104:26 There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there. Treasury of Scripture Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. the mountains Job 40:15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Psalm 147:8,9 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains… where Psalm 104:14,26 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; … Jump to Previous Animals Bear Beasts Field Food Forth Hills Mountains Nearby Play Produce Surely Wild YieldJump to Next Animals Bear Beasts Field Food Forth Hills Mountains Nearby Play Produce Surely Wild YieldJob 40 1. Job humbles himself to God6. God stirs him up to show his righteousness, power, and wisdom 16. Of the behemoth Verse 20. - Surely the mountains bring him forth food. Neither the hippopotamus nor the elephant is an inhabitant of "mountains," according to our use of the word. But the harim (הָרִים) of the original is used of very moderate eminences. In the highly poetical language of Job, and especially of this passage, the term may well be applied to the hills on either side of the Nile, which approach closely to the river, and to this day furnish the hippopotamus with a portion of its food (see Hasselquist, ' Travels,' p. 188). Where all the beasts of the field play. By "the beasts of the field" seem to be meant the cattle and other do-mastic animals which are not driven from their pasture-grounds by the "river-horse" (Tristram, 'Nat. Hist. of the Bible,' p. 52). Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew The hillsהָרִ֣ים (hā·rîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country yield יִשְׂאוּ־ (yiś·’ū-) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take him ל֑וֹ (lōw) Preposition | third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew their produce, ב֭וּל (ḇūl) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 944: Produce, outgrowth while all וְֽכָל־ (wə·ḵāl) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every the beasts חַיַּ֥ת (ḥay·yaṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life of the field הַ֝שָּׂדֶ֗ה (haś·śā·ḏeh) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7704: Field, land play יְשַֽׂחֲקוּ־ (yə·śa·ḥă·qū-) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 7832: To laugh, to play nearby. שָֽׁם׃ (šām) Adverb Strong's 8033: There, then, thither Links Job 40:20 NIVJob 40:20 NLT Job 40:20 ESV Job 40:20 NASB Job 40:20 KJV Job 40:20 BibleApps.com Job 40:20 Biblia Paralela Job 40:20 Chinese Bible Job 40:20 French Bible Job 40:20 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 40:20 Surely the mountains produce food for him (Jb) |
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