Job 40:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ Even if the river is turbulent, it is not frightened; it is confident though Jordan rushes against its mouth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: He trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Behold, if a river is violent and overflows, he does not tremble; he is confident, though the Jordan [River] swells and rushes against his mouth.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; He is confident, though a Jordan swell even to his mouth.

Common English Bible

²³ If the river surges, he doesn’t hurry; he is confident even though the Jordan gushes into his mouth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ Will he form a covenant with you, and will you accept him as a servant forever?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ Will he make a covenant with thee? And wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever?

Job 40:23 Cross References

Genesis 13:10

Lot looked about him and saw that the plain of the Jordan was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar; this was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

Job 40:22

The lotus trees cover it for shade; the willows of the wadi surround it.

Job 40:24

Can one take it with hooks or pierce its nose with a snare?

Psalm 55:8

I would hurry to find a shelter for myself from the raging wind and tempest.”

Isaiah 28:16

therefore thus says the Lord God, “See, I am laying in Zion a foundation stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: ‘One who trusts will not panic.’

Isaiah 37:25

I dug wells and drank waters; I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.’

Joshua 3:15

Now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest. So when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the edge of the water,