Job 40:15-19

The Lord Challenges Job

15 "Behold, Behemoth, 1
which I made as I made you;
he eats p grass like an ox.
 16 Behold, his strength in his loins,
and his power in the muscles of his belly.
 17 He makes his tail stiff like a cedar;
the sinews of his thighs are knit together.
 18 His bones are tubes of bronze,
his limbs like bars of iron.

19 "He is q the first of r the works 2 of God;
let him who made him bring near his sword!

  1. Cross References
    Numbers 22:4
    And Moab said to the elders of Midian, "This horde will now lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field." So Balak the son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time.
  2. Cross References
    Proverbs 8:22
    The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.
  3. Cross References
    Job 26:14
    Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?
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