For you shall be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.
Parallel translations
- KJV For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
- BSB For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.
- NKJV For you shall have a covenant with the stones of the field, And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
- NASB “For you will be in league with the stones of the field, And the animals of the field will be at peace with you.
- NLT You will be at peace with the stones of the field, and its wild animals will be at peace with you.
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Quick answer
You will be in league with the stones of the field, and wild animals will be at peace with you. It pictures restored harmony with creation.
Overview
Eliphaz envisions a renewed peace where even the ground and beasts cooperate rather than threaten. This longing for reconciled creation reflects the world's disorder under the fall and the hope of its undoing. It anticipates the messianic peace where the wolf dwells with the lamb, a harmony secured by Christ, through whom all things in heaven and earth will be reconciled.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Lev 26:6“‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
- Dan 6:22My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no hurt.
- Isa 11:6–9The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.
- Ps 91:12–13They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone.
- Hos 2:18In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.
- Rom 8:38–39For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
- Ezek 14:15–16“If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals;
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