Job 40:20, 23 | JFB | STEP | 20. The mountain is not his usual haunt. BOCHART says it is sometimes found there (?). beasts . . . play —a graphic trait: though armed with such teeth, he lets the beasts play near him unhurt, for his food is grass.

Job 40:20

20. The mountain is not his usual haunt. BOCHART says it is sometimes found there (?).

beasts . . . play—a graphic trait: though armed with such teeth, he lets the beasts play near him unhurt, for his food is grass.

Job 40:23

23. Rather, "(Though) a river be violent (overflow), he trembleth not"; (for though living on land, he can live in the water, too); he is secure, though a Jordan swell up to his mouth. "Jordan" is used for any great river (consonant with the "behemoth"), being a poetical generalization (see on Job 40:15). The author cannot have been a Hebrew as UMBREIT asserts, or he would not adduce the Jordan, where there were no river horses. He alludes to it as a name for any river, but not as one known to him, except by hearsay.