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Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Job 39:1-30

The Third Stage of the DisentanglementJob 38:1 to Job 42:6JEHOVAH’S DISCOURSE.—The aim of which is to prove that the Almighty and Only Wise God, with whom no mortal man should dispute, might also ordain suffering simply to prove and test the righteous: (Second Half of the positive solution of the problem.)Job 38:1 to Job 40:5First Discourse of Jehovah (together with Job’s answer): With God, the Almighty and Only Wise, no man may dispute. Job 38:1 to Job 40:51. Introduction: The appearance of... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Job 39:1-30

“Knowest Thou?” “Canst Thou?” Job 39:1-30 The series of questions is continued, and God asks more especially with respect to animated and organic nature. The wild goats, Job 39:1-4 ; the wild ass, Job 39:5-8 ; the wild ox, Job 39:9-12 ; the peacocks and ostriches, Job 39:13-18 ; the war horse, Job 39:19-25 ; the hawk, Job 39:26-30 . In each case some special point is asked, hidden from the observation of ordinary men. If Job were unable to know more than they on such matters as these, how... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Job 39:1-30

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 untameableness of the wild ass, the uncontrolled strength of the wild ox; in all these things God reveals Himself as interested, and, moreover, as active. The differing manifestations of foolishness and power and wisdom, as they are evident among birds and beasts, are dealt with. The ostrich rejoicing in... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 39:30

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 for man. So also for the raven ( Job 38:41); but perhaps as the raven seems out of place here among the beasts, we should read, “ Who provideth at evening its food?” In this case Job 38:41 continues the description of God’ s care of the lion. Job 39:1-Numbers : passes to the wild goats. Does... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 39:28

Which she doth partly for the security of herself and her young; and partly that she may thence have the better prospect to discern her prey, as it followeth. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 39:29

Her sight is exceeding sharp and strong, so that she is able to look upon the sun with open eyes, and to behold the smallest prey upon the earth or sea, when she is mounted out of our sight; which when she spies, she flies to it with incredible swiftness, even like an arrow out of a bow. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 39:30

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, that she drinketh no water, but blood only. Where the slain are; where any dead carcasses are, yea, or are like to be; for natural historians write of the eagles, that they can presage or smell a battle some days before it be fought. And although some writers affirm that there are divers eagles... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 39:1-30

NotesJob 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. In the first member, instead of “the peacock,” the term רְנָנִים (renanim) is more correctly translated “ostriches,” being derived from רָנַן (ranan) to “sing, or utter a shrill sound,” and applied to the ostrich from its shrill nocturnal cry. SO BOCHART, SCHULTENS, GESENIUS, and others. Other reasons... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 39:1-30

Chapter 39Do 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 know the time when they bring forth? They bow themselves, they bring their young ones, and they cast out their sorrows. Can you actually harness a unicorn to plow in your field and to do your work, to bring in your harvest? Did you paint the beautiful wings on the peacocks? or the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 39:1-30

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 their own nature, which mark the care of providence over all creatures. Job 39:9 . Will the unicorn serve thee? Hebrews Reem. The LXX, Rhinoceros or river horse, which is followed in Latin bibles, for they had no knowledge of the real unicorn. See Campbell’s account of this almost extinct... read more

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