Job 40:21

21 Se echará debajo de las sombras, en lo oculto de las cañas, y de los lugares húmedos

Job 40:21 Meaning and Commentary

Job 40:21

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 ^F5, 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 ^F6, and therefore Aelianus ^F7 says it may be called the fenny animal.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 Ammian. Marcellin. l. 22. Bellonius & Achilles Tatius apud Bochart ut supra. (Apud Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 5. c. 14. col. 760.)
F6 Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 46. Plin. l. 8. c. 10. Aelian. de Animal. l. 9. c. 56.
F7 lbid. l. 9. c. 24.

Job 40:21 In-Context

19 El es el comienzo de los caminos de Dios; el que lo hizo, acercará a él su espada

20 Ciertamente los montes llevan renuevo para él; y toda bestia del campo retoza allá

21 Se echará debajo de las sombras, en lo oculto de las cañas, y de los lugares húmedos

22 Los árboles sombríos lo cubren con su sombra; los sauces del arroyo lo cercan

23 He aquí que él tomará el río sin inmutarse; y se confía que el Jordán pasará por su boca