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Job Chapter 40 verse 20 Holy Bible

ASV Job 40:20

Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the beasts of the field do play.
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BBE Job 40:20

Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?
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DARBY Job 40:20

For the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
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KJV Job 40:20

Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
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WBT Job 40:20

Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
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WEB Job 40:20

Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the animals of the field do play.
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YLT Job 40:20

For food do mountains bear for him, And all the beasts of the field play there.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - Surely the mountains bring him forth food. Neither the hippopotamus nor the elephant is an inhabitant of "mountains," according to our use of the word. But the harim (הָרִים) of the original is used of very moderate eminences. In the highly poetical language of Job, and especially of this passage, the term may well be applied to the hills on either side of the Nile, which approach closely to the river, and to this day furnish the hippopotamus with a portion of its food (see Hasselquist, ' Travels,' p. 188). Where all the beasts of the field play. By "the beasts of the field" seem to be meant the cattle and other do-mastic animals which are not driven from their pasture-grounds by the "river-horse" (Tristram, 'Nat. Hist. of the Bible,' p. 52).

Ellicott's Commentary