Job 40:15

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The Description of Behemoth“Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox.

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  • Gen 1:24-26 : 24 God said,“Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the cattle according to their kinds, and all the creatures that creep along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said,“Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”
  • Job 39:8 : 8 It ranges the hills as its pasture, and searches after every green plant.
  • Job 40:20 : 20 For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play.
  • Ps 104:14 : 14 He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,

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  • Job 40:16-20
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    16 Look at its strength in its loins, and its power in the muscles of its belly.

    17 It makes its tail stiff like a cedar, the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.

    18 Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.

    19 It ranks first among the works of God, the One who made it has furnished it with a sword.

    20 For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play.

  • 14 Then I myself will acknowledge to you that your own right hand can save you.

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    7 including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals,

  • Job 39:19-21
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    19 “Do you give the horse its strength? Do you clothe its neck with a mane?

    20 Do you make it leap like a locust? Its proud neighing is terrifying!

    21 It paws the ground in the valley, exulting mightily, it goes out to meet the weapons.

  • 5 Complaints Reflect Suffering“Does the wild donkey bray when it is near grass? Or does the ox bellow over its fodder?

  • 15 But leave its taproot in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze around it surrounded by the grass of the field. Let it become damp with the dew of the sky, and let it live with the animals in the grass of the land.

  • 15 I will provide pasture for your livestock and you will eat your fill.”

  • Job 41:1-2
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    1 The Description of Leviathan(40:25)“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope?

    2 Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook?

  • 23 For you will have a pact with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

  • 26 The ships travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to play in it.

  • 3 Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

  • Job 39:8-11
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    8 It ranges the hills as its pasture, and searches after every green plant.

    9 Is the wild ox willing to be your servant? Will it spend the night at your feeding trough?

    10 Can you bind the wild ox to a furrow with its rope, will it till the valleys, following after you?

    11 Will you rely on it because its strength is great? Will you commit your labor to it?

  • 14 He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,

  • 10 Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it?

  • 3 Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?

  • 4 God’s questions to Job“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!

  • 7 A cow and a bear will graze together, their young will lie down together. A lion, like an ox, will eat straw.

  • 11 You clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.

  • 30 And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground– everything that has the breath of life in it– I give every green plant for food.” It was so.

  • 8 Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

  • 10 you animals and all you cattle, you creeping things and birds,

  • 5 “I made the earth and the people and animals on it by my mighty power and great strength, and I give it to whomever I see fit.

  • Job 40:8-10
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    8 Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

    9 Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

    10 Adorn yourself, then, with majesty and excellency, and clothe yourself with glory and honor!

  • 22 I was ignorant and lacked insight; I was as senseless as an animal before you.

  • 46 This is the law of the land animals, the birds, all the living creatures that move in the water, and all the creatures that swarm on the land,

  • 14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you fed him to the people who live along the coast.

  • 7 Knowledge of God’s Wisdom“But now, ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.

  • 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the cattle according to their kinds, and all the creatures that creep along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

  • 4 These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

  • 10 For every wild animal in the forest belongs to me, as well as the cattle that graze on a thousand hills.

  • 6 You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.

  • 39 “Do you hunt prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of the lions,

  • 24 Remember to extol his work, which people have praised in song.

  • 18 I also thought to myself,“It is for the sake of people, so God can clearly show them that they are like animals.

  • 4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

  • 7 Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?

  • 12 I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement.