Job 39:13-17 BSB

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 39:14

Dust. This might help to hatch them. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "earth, and warmeth them in the dust." (Protestants) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 39:16

Ones, or eggs which she leaves. (Calmet) --- 'c6lian (xiv. 6.) asserts that this bird will expose her own life to defend her young. Yet the neglect of her eggs, will suffice to make her deemed cruel, Lamentations iv. 3. (Haydock) --- Her. Other birds leave their nests through fear; (Calmet) but this, after sitting a while, will depart carelessly, (Haydock) and if she meet with other eggs on her road, will take to them, thus rendering her own useless. (Bochart) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 39:17

Understanding. This bird has a head disproportionately small; insomuch, that Heliogabalus served up the brains of 600 at one supper. It greedily eats iron, &c., which may help its digestion, as sand does that of other birds. (Calmet) --- When it is hunted, it hides its head only, as if this would be a sufficient defence, (Pliny, [Natural History?] x. 1.) and is taken alive by a man, clothed in the skin of an ostrich, who moves the head with his hand. (Strabo xvi.) --- All which proves its... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Job 39:1-30

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 travail of the many countless animals scattered in the wilderness? v. 2. Canst thou number the months that they fulfil, namely, in bearing their young? Or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? The external knowledge concerning these facts Job may have possessed, but he had no idea of the... read more

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

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Job 39:17

CREATURE AND CREATOR‘Thou … God.’ Job 39:1; Job 39:17 I. Still the unveiling of the Divine glory proceeds, but now in its application to the things of life.—The feeding of lions and young lions; the fact that the cry of a young raven is prayer in His ears, which He answers with food; 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... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 39:13

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; or, triumphant; that wherein it triumpheth or prideth itself. Wings, or feathers; Heb. wing or feather. The peacock’s beauty lies in its tail; which may well enough be comprehended under this name, as it is confessed that the Latin word ala, which properly signifies a wing, is used by Martial and... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 39:14

Which, i.e. which ostrich; whose property this is noted to be by naturalists. Or, but; for this unnatural quality is opposed to the goodliness of her wings or feathers. In the earth; in the place where she lays them; where she leaves them, either, 1. From care, lest she should crush and break them, if her vast body should sit upon them; or rather, 2. From forgetfulness, or carelessness, or unnaturalness, or folly; to which it is manifestly ascribed in the following verses. Warmeth them in the... read more

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 39:14

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 39:16

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 39:17

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Job 39:1-30

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

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

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

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Job 39:17

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 39:13

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 39:14

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