the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Job 39:27
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Is it at your command that the eagle goes on highAnd raises his nest high?
"Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up And makes his nest on high?
Doth the Egle mount vp, and make his nest on hye at thy comaundement?
Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make his nest on high?
Does the eagle mount up at your command, And make its nest on high?
Or does the eagle mount up at your mouth, and make his nest on high?
Are you the one who told the eagle to fly high into the sky? Did you tell it to build its nest high in the mountains?
Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, And makes his nest on high?
Doeth the Eagle mount vp at thy commaund? and make her nest on high?
Doth the Aegle mounte vp & make his nest on hye at thy commaundement?
Is it at thy command that the eagle mounteth up, And maketh her nest on high?
Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?
Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, And makes her nest on high?
Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
Is it at your command that the eagle soars, and builds its nest on high?
Did you train eagles to build
Does the eagle fly up when you say so, to build its nest in the heights?
Doeth the egle mount vp at thy commandement, or make his nest on hie?
Does the eagle soar at your command, and make his nest in steep rocks?
"Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up And makes his nest on high [in an inaccessible place]?
Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, And makes his nest on high?
Doth the vulture mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
Is it at your command that the eagle rises to the heights to make its nest?
Is it because the eagle is obeying you that he flies high and makes his nest in a high place?
And does the eagle rise at thy command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest,
Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?
Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes its nest on high?
Or, at thy bidding, that the Eagle mounteth, and that he setteth on high his nest?
Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest in high places?
Or does the eagle fly high at your command and construct its nest high?
Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high?
"Is it at your command that the eagle flies high, And makes his nest on high?
Are you the one that commands the eagle to fly and build its nest so high?
Does an eagle wait for your command to build its nest high in the mountains?
Does the eagle soar at your command and make its nest on high?
Whether an egle schal be reisid at thi comaundement, and schal sette his nest in hiy places?
At thy command goeth an eagle up high? Or lifteth he up his nest?
Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the eagle: Exodus 19:4, Leviticus 11:13, Psalms 103:5, Proverbs 23:5, Isaiah 40:31, Hosea 8:1
at thy command: Heb. by thy mouth
make: Jeremiah 49:16, Obadiah 1:4
Reciprocal: Job 9:26 - as the eagle Proverbs 30:19 - way of an Ezekiel 1:10 - the face of an eagle Matthew 24:28 - General
Gill's Notes on the 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 before they soar aloft: but the eagle steers its course directly upwards towards heaven, till out of sight; and, as Apuleius says p, up to the clouds, where it rains and snows, and beyond which there is no place for thunder and lightning;
and make her nest on high? so the philosopher says q; eagles make their nests not in plains, but in high places, especially in cragged rocks, as in Job 39:28.
p Florida 1. q Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 32.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 celebrated for the height to which it ascends. When Ramond had reached the summit of Mount Perdu, the highest of the Pyrenees, he perceived no living creature but an eagle which passed above him, flying with inconceivable rapidity in direct opposition to a furious wind. “Edin. Ency.” “Of all animals, the eagle flies highest; and from thence the ancients have given him the epithet of “the bird of heaven.” “Goldsmith.” What is particularly worth remarking here is, the accuracy with which the descriptions in Job are made. If these are any indications of the progress of the knowledge of Natural History, that science could not have been then in its infancy. Just the things are adverted to here which all the investigations of subsequent ages have shown to characterize the classes of the feathered creation referred to.
And make her nest on high - “The nest of the eagle is usually built in the most inaccessible cliff of the rock, and often shielded from the weather by some jutting crag that hangs over it.” “Goldsmith.” “It is usually placed horizontally, in the hollow or fissure, of some high and abrupt rock, and is constructed of sticks of five or six feet in length, interlaced with pliant twigs, and covered with layers of rushes, heath, or moss. Unless destroyed by some accident, it is supposed to suffice, with occasional repairs, for the same couple during their lives.” “Edin. Ency.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
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 Job 39:29.
