For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
Parallel translations
- WEB For you shall be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.
- 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 26:6And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
- Dan 6:22My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
- Isa 11:6–9The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
- Ps 91:12–13They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
- Hos 2:18And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
- Rom 8:38–39For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
- Ezek 14:15–16If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
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