18 Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like rods of iron.
18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
18 His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.
18 His skeleton is made of steel, every bone in his body hard as steel.
18 His bones are like beams of bronze, His ribs like bars of iron.
18 Its bones are tubes of bronze. Its limbs are bars of iron.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 40:18
Commentary on Job 40:15-24
(Read Job 40:15-24)
God, for the further proving of his own power, describes two vast animals, far exceeding man in bulk and strength. Behemoth signifies beasts. Most understand it of an animal well known in Egypt, called the river-horse, or hippopotamus. This vast animal is noticed as an argument to humble ourselves before the great God; for he created this vast animal, which is so fearfully and wonderfully made. Whatever strength this or any other creature has, it is derived from God. He that made the soul of man, knows all the ways to it, and can make the sword of justice, his wrath, to approach and touch it. Every godly man has spiritual weapons, the whole armour of God, to resist, yea, to overcome the tempter, that his never-dying soul may be safe, whatever becomes of his frail flesh and mortal body.