Job 40:23 {18}
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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.

Lexicon
Though
הֵ֤ן (hên)
Interjection
Strong's Hebrew 2005: Lo! behold!

the river
נָ֭הָר (nā·hār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5104: A stream, prosperity

rages,
יַעֲשֹׁ֣ק (ya·‘ă·šōq)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6231: To press upon, oppress, defraud, violate, overflow

Behemoth is unafraid;
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

he remains secure,
יִבְטַ֓ח ׀ (yiḇ·ṭaḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 982: To trust, be confident, sure

though
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

the Jordan
יַרְדֵּ֣ן (yar·dên)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3383: Jordan -- the principal river of Palestine

surges
יָגִ֖יחַ (yā·ḡî·aḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1518: To gush forth, to issue

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

his mouth.
פִּֽיהוּ׃ (pî·hū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to


Additional Translations
Though the river rages, Behemoth is unafraid; he remains secure, though the Jordan surges to his mouth.Behold, he drinks up a river, and hastens not: he trusts that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; He is confident, though a Jordan swell even to his mouth.

If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trust that Jordan will rush up into his mouth.

Lo, the river overfloweth -- he startleth not: he is confident though a Jordan break forth against his mouth.

Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not: he is confident, though Jordan swell even to his mouth.

Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn't tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.

Lo, a flood oppresseth -- he doth not haste, He is confident though Jordan Doth come forth unto his mouth.
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