VERSE STUDY • KJV

Job 40:16

Lo now, his strength [is] in his loins, and his force [is] in the navel of his belly.

Read it in 5 translations

Lo now, his strength [is] in his loins, and his force [is] in the navel of his belly.

See the strength of his loins and the power in the muscles of his belly.

Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly.

Lo now, his strength is in his loins, And his force is in the muscles of his belly.

Lo, I pray thee, his power is in his loins, And his strength in the muscles of his belly.

13 Hide them in the dust together; [and] bind their faces in secret.

14 Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.

15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

16 Lo now, his strength [is] in his loins, and his force [is] in the navel of his belly.

17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

18 His bones [are as] strong pieces of brass; his bones [are] like bars of iron.

19 He [is] the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach [unto him].

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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