Job 40:22 {17}
Good News Translation
The thorn bushes and the willows by the stream give him shelter in their shade.

New Revised Standard Version
The lotus trees cover it for shade; the willows of the wadi surround it.

Contemporary English Version
or hides among reeds in the swamp.

New American Bible
The lotus trees cover him with their shade; all about him are the poplars in the wadi.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The shades cover his shadow, the willows of the brook shall compass him about.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The shades cover his shadow, the willows of the brook shall compass him about.

the willows

Leviticus 23:40 And you shall take to you on the first day the fruits of the fairest tree, and branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook: And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God.

Isaiah 15:7 According to the greatness of their work, is their visitation also: they shall lead them to the torrent of the willows.

Ezekiel 17:5 And he took of the seed of the land, and put it in the ground for seed, that it might take a firm root over many waters: he planted it on the surface of the earth.

Context
Job Humbles Himself Before the LORD
21He sleepeth under the shadow, in the covert of the reed, and in moist places. 22The shades cover his shadow, the willows of the brook shall compass him about.23Behold, he will drink up a river, and not wonder: and he trusteth that the Jordan may run into his mouth.…
Cross References
Leviticus 23:40
And you shall take to you on the first day the fruits of the fairest tree, and branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook: And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God.

Job 40:21
He sleepeth under the shadow, in the covert of the reed, and in moist places.

Job 40:23
Behold, he will drink up a river, and not wonder: and he trusteth that the Jordan may run into his mouth.

Isaiah 44:4
And they shall spring up among the herbs, as willows beside the running waters.

Job 40:21
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