Bible Strands
Job 5:23
For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — A speaker addresses Job within a discourse on future security, placing the promise between assurances of safety from disaster and domestic integrity.
The words — בְרִיתֶךָ (berit-kha) translates literally as "your covenant," and הָשְׁלְמָה (hashlemah) means "it will be at peace" or "made whole."
The thread — The motif of harmonious safety with creation and protection from harm runs through Leviticus 26:6, Daniel 6:22, and Psalms 91:12.
Why it lands — The text states that natural threats will be neutralized, requiring a reader to accept that security comes from divine arrangement rather than human control.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
Cross-references
- Leviticus 26:6 And I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your land.
- Daniel 6:22 My God sent His angel and shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, for I was found innocent in His sight, and I have done no wrong against you, O king.”
- Psalms 91:12 They will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
- Isaiah 11:6 The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.
- Hosea 2:18 On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and battle in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.
- Ezekiel 14:15 Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,
- Romans 8:38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,