Teks -- Job 40:22 (NET)

40:22 The lotus trees conceal it in their shadow; the poplars by the stream conceal it.

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

Wesley: Job 40:22 - Brook

Or, of the Nile, of which this word is often used in scripture. His constant residence is in or near this river, or the willows that grow by it.

JFB: Job 40:22 - shady trees

Translate: "lotus bushes."

Clarke: Job 40:22 - The willows of the brook compass him

The willows of the brook compass him - This would agree well enough with the hippopotamus.

TSK: Job 40:22 - the willows

the willows : Lev 23:40; Isa 15:7; Eze 17:5

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

Poole: Job 40:22 - Of the brook // the willows of the brook

Of the brook or, of Nilus , of which this word is oft used in Scripture. And this seems to be the chief argument by which the learned Bochart proves this to be meant of the hippopotamus, whose constant residence is in or near the river of Nilus, or the willows that grow by it. But it is well alleged by our learned and judicious Caryl, that this word Naal is never used to express Nilus when it is put by itself, as here it is, but only where the word Egypt is added to it, as it is in all the places which Bochart produceth. And this very phrase,

the willows of the brook is used of other brooks or rivers besides Nilus, as Lev 23:40 : compare Isa 15:7 .

Haydock: Job 40:22 - Will

Will it lay aside its ferocity, (Haydock) and flatter thee? (Menochius)

Gill: Job 40:22 - The shady trees cover him with their shadow // the willows of the brook compass him about

The shady trees cover him with their shadow,.... Under which it lies, as in Job 40:21; which is thought not so well to agree with the elephant, since, according to Aelianus ^h and other writers, it lies not down, at least but rarely, but sleeps standing; it being very troublesome to it to lie down and rise up again; and besides it is represented by some authors ⁱ as higher than the trees, and therefore this is supposed to agree better with the river horse; especially since it follows,

the willows of the brook compass him about; or the willows of the Nile, as some choose to render it; which would put it out of all doubt that the river horse is intended, if it could be established, it being an inhabitant of that river; and yet the above writer ^k speaks of elephants, when grown old, seeking large thick and shady woods to take up their abode in.