There is nothing about peacocks in the Hebrew. Perhaps the sense is, 'The wing of ostriches is goodly. Is it a stork's wing for flight?' The ostrich cannot fly like a stork, which comes to Palestine in the spring on its way from Africa to Europe.
Verse Job 39:13. _THE GOODLY WINGS UNTO THE PEACOCKS?_] I believe _peacocks_ are not intended here; and the Hebrew word רננים _renanim_ should be translated _ostriches_; and the term חסידה _chasidah_...
GAVEST THOU THE GOODLY WINGS UNTO THE PEACOCKS? - In the previous verses the appeal had been to the wild and untamable animals of the desert. In the prosecution of the argument, it was natural to allu...
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)...
GAVEST THOU. The Ellipsis (App-6) is correctly supplied....
The ostrich....
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....
The verse reads, The wing of the ostrich beats joyously, Is it a kindly pinion and feather? The word rendered _ostrich_means lit. _crying_or _wailing_, that is, the cryer or wailer; the female ostr...
GOODLY WINGS UNTO THE PEACOCKS— Bochart seems to have proved, beyond all dispute, that the word rendered _peacocks_ signifies _ostriches;_ and the following description entirely agrees with that opini...
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...
_GAVEST THOU THE GOODLY WINGS UNTO THE PEACOCKS? OR WINGS AND FEATHERS UNTO THE OSTRICH?_ Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? - rather, 'the wing o...
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...
God has made some very strange birds and animals. The ostrich is a bird with wings. But it cannot fly. Some birds are very careful about their eggs. But the ostrich leaves its eggs on the ground. And...
GAVEST THOU THE GOODLY WINGS UNTO THE PEACOCKS? — Rather, _The wing of the ostrich is superb, but are her pinions and her feathers like the stork’s?_ Ostrich feathers are said to be worth from £8 to £...
כְּנַף ־רְנָנִ֥ים נֶעֱלָ֑סָה אִם ־אֶ֝בְרָ֗ה חֲסִידָ֥ה...
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...
“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...
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...
Hawk. We may also read, "Is the wing of the ostrich like?" Septuagint or Theodotion, "The bird of Neelasa is rejoicing, if she take the Asida, &c., the Neessa." (Haydock) --- Hebrew is variously trans...
(12) Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? (13) В¶ Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? (14) Which le...
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...
[GAVEST THOU] THE GOODLY WINGS UNTO THE PEACOCKS?.... Rather "ostriches", as the Vulgate Latin and Tigurine versions render it; some render it, "the wing of those that exult is joyful", so Montanus; t...
Job 39:13 [Gavest thou] the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Ver. 13. _Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks?_] _Alam exultandam,_ the wings and tail t...
_Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks?_ The subject now changes from beasts to birds. There is no Hebrew in the text for _gavest thou_, and Bochart, who says of this verse, _Vix ullus sit Sc...
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? literally, "The wing of the female ostrich claps joyously," in time with her piercing cries, OR WINGS AND FEATHERS UNTO THE OSTRICH, literally, "Is it t...
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...
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...
WINGS AND FEATHERS UNTO THE OSTRICH?: Or, the feathers of the Stork and Ostrich...
Next God mentions that strange bird, the ostrich. This bizarre bird, weighing up to 300 pounds and reaching. height of seven or eight feet. It flaps it wings, but it cannot fly, "the ostrich proudly w...
GAVEST THOU: the style of this book is very concise, and some verb is manifestly wanting to supply the sense; and this seems to be fitly understood out of JOB 39:19, where it is expressed. _The goodly...
Job 39:13 wings H3671 ostrich H5965 (H8738) proudly H7443 wings H84 pinions H2624 storks H5133 peacocks -...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
1 Kings 10:22; 2 Chronicles 9:21; Jeremiah 8:7; Job 30:29; Levi