100 Bible Verses about Behemoth

Job 40:15 ESV / 89 helpful votes

“Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox.

Job 40:15-24 ESV / 79 helpful votes

“Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox. Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly. He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron. “He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword! ...

Job 41:1-34 ESV / 73 helpful votes

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord? Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words? Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever? Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls? ...

Job 40:1-24 ESV / 67 helpful votes

And the Lord said to Job: “Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.” Then Job answered the Lord and said: “Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further.” ...

Isaiah 27:1 ESV / 58 helpful votes

In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Job 40:17 ESV / 45 helpful votes

He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.

Psalm 104:26 ESV / 41 helpful votes

There go the ships, and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it.

Psalm 74:14 ESV / 40 helpful votes

You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

Job 41:1 ESV / 37 helpful votes

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord?

Job 3:8 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan.

Job 40:1-41:34 ESV / 28 helpful votes

And the Lord said to Job: “Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.” Then Job answered the Lord and said: “Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further.” ...

Job 40:16 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 22 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

Genesis 1:24 ESV / 20 helpful votes

And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.

Job 40:19 ESV / 19 helpful votes

“He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword!

Psalm 74:12-14 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters. You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

Genesis 1:21 ESV / 18 helpful votes

So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Psalm 74:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes

You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters.

Psalm 74:13-14 ESV / 17 helpful votes

You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters. You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

Job 40:15-19 ESV / 16 helpful votes

“Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox. Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly. He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron. “He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword!

Ezekiel 31:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and forest shade, and of towering height, its top among the clouds.

Psalm 92:12 ESV / 15 helpful votes

The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Psalm 18:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.

Job 41:33 ESV / 15 helpful votes

On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear.

Job 41:18 ESV / 15 helpful votes

His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.

Job 41:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes

No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

Psalm 104:1-35 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent. He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind; he makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire. He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. ...

Job 40:22 ESV / 14 helpful votes

For his shade the lotus trees cover him; the willows of the brook surround him.

Revelation 20:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes

And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Psalm 74:1-23 ESV / 13 helpful votes

A Maskil of Asaph. O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture? Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt. Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary! Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they set up their own signs for signs. They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees. ...

Job 41:31 ESV / 13 helpful votes

He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

Job 41:15 ESV / 13 helpful votes

His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.

Job 41:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

Job 41:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever?

Job 39:1-30 ESV / 13 helpful votes

“Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does? Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth, when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young? Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them. “Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey, ...

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 12 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Job 41:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Can you fill his skin with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

Job 1:1-22 ESV / 12 helpful votes

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east. His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually. ...

Revelation 12:1-17 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, ...

Job 40:21 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Under the lotus plants he lies, in the shelter of the reeds and in the marsh.

Job 40:15-16 ESV / 11 helpful votes

“Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox. Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly.

Exodus 20:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Habakkuk 2:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.

Psalm 104:25-26 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great. There go the ships, and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it.

Job 41:25 ESV / 10 helpful votes

When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves.

Job 7:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 9 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Joel 1:20 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Even the beasts of the field pant for you because the water brooks are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

Ezekiel 17:22 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord God: “I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out. I will break off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.

Isaiah 37:24 ESV / 9 helpful votes

By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon, to cut down its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses, to come to its remotest height, its most fruitful forest.

Isaiah 2:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up; and against all the oaks of Bashan;

Psalm 73:22 ESV / 9 helpful votes

I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.

Job 41:29 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins.

Job 41:28 ESV / 9 helpful votes

The arrow cannot make him flee; for him, sling stones are turned to stubble.

Job 41:27 ESV / 9 helpful votes

He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.

Job 41:26 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail, nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

Deuteronomy 28:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them,

Job 41:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes

His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone.

Job 41:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes

In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.

Job 41:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes

His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.

Job 41:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.

Job 41:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth.

Job 41:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.

Job 41:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.

Job 41:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Behold, the hope of a man is false; he is laid low even at the sight of him.

Job 41:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Lay your hands on him; remember the battle—you will not do it again!

Job 41:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words?

Job 41:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Job 40:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Can one take him by his eyes, or pierce his nose with a snare?

Job 40:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.

Job 40:15-18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox. Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly. He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.

Job 40:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.

Deuteronomy 32:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes

They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured by plague and poisonous pestilence; I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with the venom of things that crawl in the dust.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Daniel 10:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes

His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.

Ezekiel 32:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: “You consider yourself a lion of the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers.

Proverbs 21:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.

Psalm 91:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,

Job 42:1-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Then Job answered the Lord and said: “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. ‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.’ I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; ...

Job 41:34 ESV / 7 helpful votes

He sees everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride.”

Job 41:30 ESV / 7 helpful votes

His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.

Job 41:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle?

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

James 5:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. ...

Romans 3:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ...

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Revelation 21:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” ...

Revelation 21:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

1 Peter 1:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

James 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

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