Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 40:23

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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 :- ). 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. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-24" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-job-40-003

절 (explains)

bible-text/job-40-23

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological