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14 Then will I too praise you,
    for your own right hand can save you.
15 Look at Behemoth,[a] whom I made along with you,
    who feeds on grass like an ox.
16 See the strength in his loins,
    the power in the sinews of his belly.

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Footnotes

  1. 40:15 Behemoth: a primeval monster of chaos; identified by some scholars as the hippopotamus, on which the description of Behemoth is partially based. The point of the Behemoth-Leviathan passages is that only the Lord, not Job, can control the cosmic evil which these forces symbolize.

14 Then I myself will admit to you
    that your own right hand can save you.(A)

15 “Look at Behemoth,
    which I made(B) along with you
    and which feeds on grass like an ox.(C)
16 What strength(D) it has in its loins,
    what power in the muscles of its belly!(E)

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