He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
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Gill's Exposition
Surely the mountains bring him forth food,.... Grass, which grows on mountains, and is the food of the river horse as well as of the elephant; and therefore is furnished with teeth like a scythe to…
Barnes' Notes
He is the chief of the ways of God - In size and strength. The word rendered “chief” is used in a similar sense in Num 24:20, “Amalek was the first of the nations;” that is, one of the most powerful…
Adam Clarke
He is the chief of the ways of God - The largest, strongest, and swiftest quadruped that God has formed.
He that made him - No power of man or beast can overcome him. God alone can overcome him, and…
God, for the further proving of his own power and disproving of Job's pretensions, concludes his discourse with the description of two vast and mighty animals, far exceeding man in bulk and strength,…
These verses are connected,
19. He is the chief of the ways of God;
He that made him provideth him with his sword;
20. For the mountains, &c.
By "chief," lit. beginning, is meant the first in…
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