Devine Scripture

Job 40:23

Job chapter 40 · verse 23 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.22The lotus-trees cover him with their shade; The willows of the brook compass him about.

v.23This passage

v.24Shall any take him when he is on the watch, Or pierce through his nose with a snare?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 13:10

    And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest unto Zoar.

  • Isaiah 28:16

    therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone of sure foundation: he that believeth shall not be in haste.

  • Joshua 3:15

    and when they that bare the ark were come unto the Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (for the Jordan overfloweth all its banks all the time of harvest),

  • Psalms 55:8

    I would haste me to a shelter From the stormy wind and tempest.

  • Isaiah 37:25

    I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.