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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Job 39:30

Her young ones also, as true birds of prey, suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is she, the vulture being here included in the genus eagle. All these considerations, the mere recital of which had the effect of rendering Job speechless with awe, showed that God's majesty is infinitely exalted above man's criticism, that man simply cannot undertake to measure God according to the rules and ideas of mortal men.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 39:30. _HER YOUNG ONES ALSO SUCK UP BLOOD_] The eagle does not feed her young with _carrion_, but with prey _newly_ slain, so that they may _suck up blood_. _WHERE THE SLAIN_ ARE, _THERE_...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HER YOUNG ONES ALSO SUCK UP BLOOD - The word used here (יעלעוּ _y__e__‛âl‛û_) occurs nowhere else in the Scriptures. It is supposed to mean, to sup up greedily; referring to the fact that the young...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 38:39--39:30 _ 1. The beasts of prey (Job 38:39)_ 2. The wild goats, the ass, the unicorn and the ostrich (Job 39:1) 3. The horse, the hawk and the eagle (Job 39:19)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 38:39 TO JOB 39:30. THE WONDERS OF THE ANIMATE CREATION. In Job 38:39 f. God first names the lion. Man would rather hunt and destroy the lion than feed him. But God cares for the lion as well as f...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WHERE THE SLAIN ARE, &C: i.e. on. field of battle. Compare Matthew 24:28; Luke 17:37. SHE. Authorized Version, 1611, reads "he"....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The eagle. Is it at Job's command that the eagle fixes her habitation fearlessly on the dizzy crag? Did he bestow on her her penetrating vision, which scans the wide expanse of country and pierces in...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Job 38:39 Ch. Job 39:30. The manifoldness of the Divine Mind as displayed in the world of animal life The instances chosen are the lion and the raven (Job 38:39); the wild goats and the hinds (ch....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. And of the animal world (Job 39:1, Job 40:2) TEXT 39:1-30 to Job 40:2 39 KNOWEST THOU THE TIME WHEN THE WILD GOATS OF THE ROCK BRING FORTH? _Or_ canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? 2 Canst...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _HER YOUNG ONES ALSO SUCK UP BLOOD: AND WHERE THE SLAIN ARE, THERE IS SHE._ _ HER YOUNG ONES ALSO SUCK UP BLOOD: AND WHERE THE SLAIN ARE, THERE IS SHE._ Quoted partly by Jesus Christ (Matthew 24:28)....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIRST SPEECH OF THE ALMIGHTY (CONCLUDED) Chs. Job 38:39 and Job 38:39 depict the wonders of animate creation, and the instincts with which animals are gifted by the providence of God. In view of...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Cp. Matthew 24:28....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    In verses 19-26, God described a terrible battle. After the battle, the vultures come. Vultures are birds that eat dead bodies. They do not hunt for anything that is alive. Perhaps they are eating the...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 39 GOD SPEAKS ABOUT BIRDS A...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHERE THE SLAIN ARE, THERE IS SHE. — Comp. Matthew 24:28, and Luke 17:37....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _וְ_†_אֶפְרֹחָ֥יו_† יְעַלְעוּ ־דָ֑ם וּ בַ אֲשֶׁ֥ר...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XXVIII. THE RECONCILIATION Job 38:1 - Job 42:6 THE main argument of the address ascribed to the Almighty is contained in Chapter s 38 and 39 and in the opening verses of chapter 42. Job makes submis...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “KNOWEST THOU?” “CANST THOU?” Job 39:1 The series of questions is continued, and God asks more especially with respect to animated and organic nature. The wild goats, Job 39:1; the wild ass, Job 39:5...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    And still the unveiling goes forward: the mystery of the begetting and birth of lower animals, with the sorrows of travail, and the finding of strength; the freedom and wildness and splendid untameabl...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Blood, gushing forth from the animals, which the eagle brings. (Menochius) --- St. Chrysostom explains this of the vulture, (Matthew xxiv. 28.; Calmet) which is of the same species. (Menochius) --- S...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS READER, let you and I, in the perusal of this chapter of GOD'S tender mercies over all his works, draw the same conclusion from the review of so much love, as the Apostle did on another oc...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (27) Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? (28) She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. (29) From thence she seeketh the pre...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 38 THROUGH 42. Jehovah then speaks, and addressing Job, carries on the subject. He makes Job sensible of his nothingness. Job confesses himself to be vile, an...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HER YOUNG ONES ALSO SUCK UP BLOOD,.... As well as herself, being brought up to it by her. The eagle cares not for water, but drinks the blood of her prey; and so her young ones after her, as naturalis...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain [are], there [is] she. Ver. 30. _Her young ones also suck up blood_] Heb. They are glutonous for blood. The Hebrew word, _jegnalegna dam,_ seems...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Her eyes behold afar off_ Dr. Young observes, that “the eagle is said to be of so acute a sight that, when she is so high in the air that man cannot see her, she can discern the smallest fish in the...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE WILD GOATS AND THE DEER (vv.1-4) The Lord now turns Job's attention to animals not in the least aggressive, the wild goats and the deer. Indeed, rather than aggressive, they are elusive. Did Job...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BLOOD; either of the prey which the eagle hath brought to her nest for them, or of that which themselves catch and kill, being betimes inured to this work by their dams. Naturalists note of the eagle,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 39:30 ones H667 up H5966 (H8762) blood H1818 slain H2491 it H1931 where - Ezekiel 39

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: God's challenge to Job continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job. CONCLUSION: When we consider God's wonderful works in all nature about us, and see how wonderfully even the brute creatures are fitt...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 39:1. _The wild goat,_ on the Arabian rocks, leaps with incredible celerity from rock to rock, and leaves the dogs and wolves behind. She hides her young in those retreats. They follow the laws of...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Hast thou given the horse strength?_ THE HIGHER TEACHING OF NATURE The intent of all these beautiful references to the works of Nature is to teach us, from the wisdom, skill, and curious designs dis...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    NOTES Job 39:13. “_Gatest thou the goodly wings unto the peacock, or wings and feathers into the ostrich?_” (MARGIN: “The feathers of the stork and ostrich.”) The whole verse very variously rendered....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 39:1 This chapter completes the survey of animate nature begun at Job 38:39. The habits and instincts of the wild goat, the wild ass, and wild cattle are first noticed (Job 38:1); then...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Do you know the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? can you mark when the hinds calve? Can you number the months that they fulfil? [Do you know how long their pregnancies are?] or do you...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 39:17; Luke 17:37; Matthew 24:28...

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