Job 40:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 104:14 : 14 He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,
  • Ps 104:26 : 26 The ships travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to play in it.
  • Ps 147:8-9 : 8 He covers the sky with clouds, provides the earth with rain, and causes grass to grow on the hillsides. 9 He gives food to the animals, and to the young ravens when they chirp.
  • Job 40:15 : 15 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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  • 8It ranges the hills as its pasture, and searches after every green plant.

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

  • 21Under the lotus trees it lies, in the secrecy of the reeds and the marsh.

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

  • Job 38:39-40
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    39“Do you hunt prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of the lions,

    40when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?

  • Ps 104:20-21
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    20You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

    21The lions roar for prey, seeking their food from God.

  • 15The Description of Behemoth“Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox.

  • Ps 148:9-10
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    9you mountains and all you hills, you fruit trees and all you cedars,

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

  • 18The wild goats live in the high mountains; the rock badgers find safety in the cliffs.

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

  • Ps 50:10-11
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    10For every wild animal in the forest belongs to me, as well as the cattle that graze on a thousand hills.

    11I keep track of every bird in the hills, and the insects of the field are mine.

  • 8The wild animals go to their lairs, and in their dens they remain.

  • Ps 147:8-9
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    8He covers the sky with clouds, provides the earth with rain, and causes grass to grow on the hillsides.

    9He gives food to the animals, and to the young ravens when they chirp.

  • 9The Lord Denounces Israel’s Paganism All you wild animals in the fields, come and devour, all you wild animals in the forest!

  • Job 28:8-9
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    8Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it.

    9On the flinty rock man has set to work with his hand; he has overturned mountains at their bases.

  • Ps 104:10-14
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    10He turns springs into streams; they flow between the mountains.

    11They provide water for all the animals in the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

    12The birds of the sky live beside them; they chirp among the bushes.

    13He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace; the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow.

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

  • 13He enabled him to travel over the high terrain of the land, and he ate of the produce of the fields. He provided honey for him from the cliffs, and olive oil from the hardest of rocks,

  • 6Why do you skip like rams, O mountains, like lambs, O hills?

  • 8as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down– to the place you appointed for them.

  • 20Even the wild animals cry out to you; for the river beds have dried up; fire has destroyed the pastures of the wilderness.

  • Job 5:22-23
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    22You will laugh at destruction and famine and need not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

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

  • 34He gives me the agility of a deer; he enables me to negotiate the rugged terrain.

  • Job 39:1-2
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    1“Are you acquainted with the way the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?

    2Do you count the months they must fulfill, and do you know the time they give birth?

  • 6Your justice is like the highest mountains, your fairness like the deepest sea; you, LORD, preserve mankind and the animal kingdom.

  • 15with the best of the ancient mountains and the harvest produced by the age-old hills;

  • 12The pastures in the wilderness glisten with moisture, and the hills are clothed with joy.

  • 7Knowledge 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.

  • 4The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

  • 33He gives me the agility of a deer; he enables me to negotiate the rugged terrain.

  • 6You created the mountains by your power, and demonstrated your strength.

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    11Taunt against the Once-Mighty Lion Where now is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, lioness, and lion cub once prowled and no one disturbed them?

    12The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his lairs with prey and his dens with torn flesh.

  • 27All of your creatures wait for you to provide them with food on a regular basis.

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

  • 20The wild animals honor me, the jackals and ostriches, because I put water in the wilderness and streams in the wastelands, to quench the thirst of my chosen people,

  • 21whose foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful, and from which there was food available for all, under whose branches wild animals used to live, and in whose branches birds of the sky used to nest–

  • 23If the river rages, it is not disturbed, it is secure, though the Jordan should surge up to its mouth.

  • 18Listen to the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander around in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.