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Job 39:27-30

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 into the deep ravine? or did he endow her with her terrible instincts, that shew themselves at once in her young, which "suck up blood"?

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See also Job 39:27-30 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 39:27. _DOTH THE EAGLE MOUNT UP_] The eagle is said to be of so acute a sight, that when she is so high in the air that men cannot see her, she can discern a small fish in the water! See on...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    DOTH THE EAGLE MOUNT UP AT THY COMMAND? - Margin, as in Hebrew, “by thy mouth.” The meaning is, that Job had not power to direct or order the eagle in his lofty flight. The eagle has always been celeb...

  • 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)...

  • 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

    _DOTH THE EAGLE MOUNT UP AT THY COMMAND, AND MAKE HER NEST ON HIGH?_ Eagle - it flies highest of all birds: thence called the bird of heaven....

  • 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

    'Eagle'is masculine throughout....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אִם ־עַל ־פִּ֭יךָ יַגְבִּ֣יהַּ נָ֑שֶׁר וְ֝ כִ

  • 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...

  • 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

    DOTH THE EAGLE MOUNT UP AT THY COMMAND,.... No; but by an instinct which God has placed in it, and a capacity he has given it above all other birds. They take a circuit in their flight, and bend about...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? Ver. 27. _Doth the eagle mount up at thy command?_] Mount plumb up (which no bird else can do) to an infinite height, even out of si...

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

    _Doth the eagle mount up at thy command?_ Fly directly upward till she be out of thy sight, which no other bird can do; _and make her nest on high_ In the highest and inaccessible rocks: compare Jerem...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Doth the eagle mount up, soaring in stately flight, AT THY COMMAND AND MAKE HER NEST ON HIGH? Was all this a result of Job's power and authority?...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    V. 1. KNOWEST THOU THE TIME WHEN THE WILD GOATS OF THE ROCK BRING FORTH, their homes being on the rocks near the summits of the mountains? OR CANST THOU MARK WHEN THE HINDS DO CALVE, noting the travai...

  • 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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    AT THY COMMAND?: _ Heb._ by thy mouth...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    MOUNT UP; fly directly upward, till she be out of thy sight; which no other bird can do. ON HIGH; in the highest and inaccessible rocks. Compare JEREMIAH 49:16 OBADIAH 1:4....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 39:27 eagle H5404 up H1361 (H8686) command H6310 make H7311 nest H7064 high H7311 (H8686) the eagle -

  • 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

    _Doth the eagle mount up at thy command?_ THE CAPTIVE SET FREE Many years had a noble eagle been confined in such a manner that no one had seen it even attempt to raise a wing. It had been cherished...

  • 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

    Exodus 19:4; Hosea 8:1; Isaiah 40:31; Jeremiah 49:16; Leviticus 11:13;

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Mount — Flies directly upward 'till she be out of thy sight; which no other bird can do....

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