Job 40:16

 Job 40:16

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

a. ASV: Lo now, his strength is in his loins, And his force is in the muscles of his belly. [Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.]

b. YLT: Lo, I pray thee, his power is in his loins, And his strength in the muscles of his belly.  [The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.]

c. Classic Amplified: See now, his strength is in his loins, and his power is in the sinews of his belly.  [Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC) Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation]

d. Stone Edition Torah/Prophets/Writings: Behold, now, his strength is in his loins and his might is in the navel of his abdomen.  [The Artscroll Series/Stone Edition, THE TANACH--STUDENT SIZE EDITION Copyright 1996, 1998 by Mesorah Publications, Ltd.]

e. ESV: Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly. [Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001, 2007, 2011, 2016 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.]

1. “Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.”

a. Lo [Streong: 2009 hinnêh, hin-nay'; prolongation for H2005; lo!:—behold, lo, see.]

b. now [Strong: 4994 nâʼ, naw; a primitive particle of incitement and entreaty, which may usually be rendered; 'I pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction:—I beseech (pray) thee (you), go to, now, oh.]

c. [his] strength [is in] [Strong: 3581 kôach, ko'-akh; or (Daniel 11:6) כּוֹחַ kôwach; from an unused root meaning to be firm; vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce); also (from its hardiness) a large lizard:—ability, able, chameleon, force, fruits, might, power(-ful), strength, substance, wealth.]

d. [his] loins [Strong: 4975 môthen, mo'-then; from an unused root meaning to be slender; properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins:— greyhound, loins, side.]

e. [and his] force [Strong: 202 ʼôwn, one; probably from the same as H205 (in the sense of effort, but successful); ability, power, (figuratively) wealth:—force, goods, might, strength, substance.]

f. [is in the] navel [Strong: 8306 shârîyr, shaw-reer'; from H8324 in the original sense as in H8270 (compare H8326); a cord, i.e. (by analogy) sinew:—navel.]

g. [of his] belly [Strong: 990 beṭen, beh'-ten; from an unused root probably meaning to be hollow; the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything:—belly, body, as they be born, within, womb.]

1). Institute Of Creation Research Days of Praise 1/26/14 In this remarkable passage, the Lord has been urging Job and his three philosophizing friends to consider all the marvelous evidences of God’s power and wisdom in nature. Finally, he calls their attention to “behemoth” (from a Hebrew word meaning “gigantic beast”), the greatest land animal God ever made—“chief of the ways of God.” Commentators who have tried to identify a living animal as behemoth have called it either an elephant or a hippopotamus, but it is obvious that neither of these animals “moveth his tail like a cedar.” The other descriptions are also inappropriate. It should be obvious that the behemoth is an extinct animal, very probably a great dinosaur. This would be obvious were it not for the widespread evolutionary delusion that dinosaurs became extinct million of years ago, with man evolving only about a million years ago. Modern creation scientists, however, have published many well-documented evidences that dinosaurs existed contemporaneously with early humans up to relatively recent times, and that these supposed evolutionary eons of time are pure fiction. Early men, such as Job, could indeed marvel at this gigantic creature of God and also rejoice in God’s ability to control the great problems of life as well as His sincere concern with every individual need of His people. It is also worth noting that there are several references to dragons in the Bible, as well as in ancient traditions everywhere, and it is likely these also reflect the memories of dinosaurs retained by early tribes after the Flood. HMM