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OET (OET-RV) ⇔ Now look at the sauropod which I made on the same day as you.
⇔ It eats grass like a cow.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
הִנֵּה
see/lo/see!
Yahweh is speaking as if he wants Job to behold or look at an animal that is not present. Yahweh is using sight to represent attention. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “consider”
Note 2 topic: translate-names
בְ֭הֵמוֹת
behemoth
See the discussion of the name Behemoth in the General Notes to this chapter to decide how to represent this name in your translation.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂ֣יתִי עִמָּ֑ךְ
which/who made just_as,you
Yahweh means that he made Behemoth just as he made Job, not that he made Behemoth at the same time when he made Job. Alternate translation: “which I myself created, just as I created you”
Note 4 topic: grammar-connect-logic-contrast
חָ֝צִ֗יר כַּבָּקָ֥ר יֹאכֵֽל
grass like_the,ox eats
There is an implied contrast here. This great beast has the size and strength to hunt and kill other animals; nevertheless, it lives on plants. (This may be an implicit indication that such great wild beasts remain under the restraint of Yahweh.) You may wish to indicate this contrast in your translation, in a way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “despite its great size and strength, it eats grass like an ox”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
חָ֝צִ֗יר
grass
Yahweh is probably using one kind of plant, grass, to mean all kinds of green plants that animals eat. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “green plants”
40:15-24 Following a list of natural animals (39:1-30), God described Behemoth (40:15-24) and Leviathan (41:1-34) as creatures that man cannot tame. Job couldn’t tame the wild donkey or ox (39:5-12), let alone Behemoth and Leviathan (40:15-24), but God created them and could control them, and Job had to acknowledge it (41:2).
• Here Behemoth seems to be a natural creature: (1) It is an animal that God made, just as he made Job (40:15); (2) it is not a dreadful predator but eats grass like an ox (40:15); and (3) it is in a poem describing God’s creation of the natural order, rather than in a mythological story of the world’s formation. Most commentators identify Behemoth with the hippopotamus, a huge, grass-eating animal (40:15-19) that lies in the river among the lotus plants and reeds (40:21). Like the wild ox, Behemoth is powerful (40:16-18, 24; 39:11), yet is essentially peaceful (40:20-23).
OET (OET-RV) ⇔ Now look at the sauropod which I made on the same day as you.
⇔ It eats grass like a cow.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.