Teks -- Job 40:21 (NET)

40:21 Under the lotus trees it lies, in the secrecy of the reeds and the marsh.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Job 40:21 - lieth

He leads an inactive life.

JFB: Job 40:21 - shady trees

Rather, "lotus bushes"; as Job 40:22 requires.

Clarke: Job 40:21 - He lieth under the shady trees

He lieth under the shady trees - This and the following verses refer to certain habits of the behemoth, with which we are and must be unacquainted,

TSK: Job 40:21 - the reed

the reed : Isa 19:6, Isa 19:7, Isa 35:7

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Job 40:21

The elephant lies down to rest himself; and it is but fabulous which some writers affirm, that they have no joints in their legs, and so cannot lie down, but sleep or rest themselves standing or leaning against a tree; which is denied and confuted by Aristotle in his History of Living Creatures, 2, 4. and by later writers. For the elephant, being a creature naturally hot, and living generally in hot countries, diligently seeks for and delights in shady and waterish places, as is noted by Aristotle, and after him by Pliny and

Haydock: Job 40:21 - Buckle

Buckle. Literally, "bracelet," ( armilla. ; Haydock) or ring. Horses were thus ornamented, (Virgil vii. 7.) and other beasts led about. But this fierce animal could not be tamed. Hebrew, "Wilt thou put a rush through its gills, or nose, or pierce its jaw with a thorn?" like those little fishes which are thus brought fresh to market. (Calmet)

Gill: Job 40:21 - He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed // and fens.

He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed,

and fens. This may be thought to agree very well with the river horse, the inhabitant of the Nile, where reeds in great plenty grew, and adjoining to which were fenny and marshy places, and shady trees; and, as historians relate ^e, this creature takes its lodging among high reeds, and in shady places; yea, the reeds and sugar canes, and the leaves of the papyrus, are part of the food on which it lives; and hence the hunters of them sometimes cover their bait with a reed to take them; though it must be allowed that the elephant delights to be about rivers, and in clayey and fenny places ^f, and therefore Aelianus ^g says it may be called the fenny animal.