Job 40:20

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“Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.”

Zoology

Behemoth ⁽³⁶⁾

It says of this “behemoth” that though the mountains are not his usual place, he is sometimes found there. It says, though he is armed with such teeth, he lets the beasts play near him unhurt, for his food is grass. Some say the hippopotamus, some say the mammoth or elephant, but the more plausible with the combination of the description of a large presence, vegetarian, yet with large sharp teeth and the larger slow and lumbering tail that Job 40:17 describes as a cedar, is the dinosaur.

It is said of this beast that he lies commonly among the reeds and fens, and is in the water a considerable portion of his time, yet he also wanders to the mountains, and finds his food there. But the point of the remark here does not seem to be, that the mountains brought forth food for him, but that he gathered it “while all the wild beasts played around him, or sported in his very presence.” It was remarkable that an animal so large and mighty, and armed with such a set of teeth, should not be carnivorous, and that the wild beasts on the mountains should continue their sports without danger or alarm in his very presence. This fact could be accounted for partly because the “motions” of the this large beast were so very slow and clumsy that the wild beasts had nothing to fear from him, and could easily escape from him if he were disposed to attack them, and partly from the fact that he seems to have “preferred” vegetable food. Finding of dinosaur remnants show evidence that they were seldom carnivorous, earlier on in their existence.