Job 40:23 {18}
Good News Translation
He is not afraid of a rushing river; he is calm when the Jordan dashes in his face.

New Revised Standard Version
Even if the river is turbulent, it is not frightened; it is confident though Jordan rushes against its mouth.

Contemporary English Version
It remains calm and unafraid with the Jordan River rushing and splashing in its face.

New American Bible
If the river grows violent, he is not disturbed; he is tranquil though the Jordan surges about his mouth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold, he will drink up a river, and not wonder: and he trusteth that the Jordan may run into his mouth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

drinketh.

Isaiah 37:25 I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole of my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.

hasteth

Psalm 55:8 I waited for him that hath saved me from pusillanimity of spirit, and a storm.

Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lay a stone in the foundations of Sion, a tried stone, a corner stone, a precious stone, founded in the foundation. He that believeth, let him not hasten.

Jordan

Genesis 13:10 And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.

Joshua 3:15 And as soon as they came into the Jordan, and their feet were dipped in part of the water, (now the Jordan, it being harvest time, had filled the banks of its channel,)

Context
Job Humbles Himself Before the LORD
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.24In his eyes as with a hook he shall take him, and bore through his nostrils with stakes.…
Cross References
Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.

Job 40:22
The shades cover his shadow, the willows of the brook shall compass him about.

Job 40:24
In his eyes as with a hook he shall take him, and bore through his nostrils with stakes.

Job 40:22
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