the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Job 39:29
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From there he spies out food;His eyes see it from afar.
"From there he spies out food; His eyes see it from afar.
From whence he seeketh his praye, and loketh farre about with his eyes.
From thence he spieth out the prey, his eyes look into the distance;
From there it spies out the prey; Its eyes observe from afar.
From there he seeks food; his eyes see afar off.
From there it looks far into the distance, searching for its food.
From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.
From thence she seeketh the pray, and her eyes behold a farre off.
From thence maye he beholde his praye, and loke farre aboute with his eyes.
From thence she spieth out the prey; Her eyes behold it afar off.
From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.
From there she spies out the prey; Her eyes watch it far off.
From thence she seeketh the prey, [and] her eyes behold afar off.
From there it spots its prey, its eyes gaze intently from a distance.
where they can look down to spot their next meal?
From there it spots its prey, its eyes see it far off.
From thence she spieth for meate, and her eyes beholde afarre off.
He is sustained by his prey, his eyes behold afar off.
"From there he spies out the prey; His eyes see it from far away.
From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.
From thence she spieth out the prey; her eyes behold it afar off.
From there it hunts its prey, keeping watch with piercing eyes.
From there he looks for his food. His eyes see it from far away.
Thence he seeks food, his eyes observe from far.
From thence she spieth out the prey; her eyes behold it afar off.
From there he spies out food; his eyes see it from afar.
From there it spies the prey; its eyes see it from far away.
From thence, he searcheth out food, far away, his eyes do pierce;
From thence she looketh for the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
From there it spies out the prey; its eyes look from far away.
From there he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it from far away.
"From there he tracks food; His eyes look at it from afar.
From there it looks for its food; its eyes can see it from far away.
From there it watches near and far for something to kill and eat.
From there it searches for prey; its eyes penetrate the distance.
Fro thennus he biholdith mete, and hise iyen loken fro fer.
From thence he hath sought food, To a far off place his eyes look attentively,
Thence he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it afar off.
Contextual Overview
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
she: Job 9:26
her: The eagle is proverbial for her strong and clear sight.
Reciprocal: Luke 17:37 - wheresoever
Gill's Notes on the Bible
From thence she seeketh the prey,.... From the high rock; from whence she can look down into valleys, and even into the sea; and spy what is for her purpose, and descend and seize upon them; as lambs, fawns, geese, shellfish, c. though they may lie in the most hidden and secret places. Wherefore in the original text it is, "she diggeth the prey or food" s as treasure hid in secret is dug or diligently searched for; and for which she is qualified by the sharpness of her sight, as follows:
[and] her eyes behold afar off; from the high rocks and higher clouds, even from the high sky, as Aelianus t expresses it; and who observes that she is the most sharp sighted of all birds; and so, Homer u says, some affirm.
s חפר אכל "fodit escam"; Montanus, Mercerus. t De Animal. l. 2. c. 26. & l. 1. c. 42. Aristot. & Plin. ut supra. (Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 32. Nat. Hist. l. 10. c. 3.) u Iliad. 17. v. 674, 675. so Diodor. Sic. l. 3. p. 145.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
From, thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off - “When far aloft, and no longer discernible by the human eye, such is the wonderful acuteness of its sight, that from the same elevation it will mark a hare, or even a smaller animal, and dart down on it with unerring aim.” “Edin. Ency.” “Of all animals, the eagle has the quickest eye; but his sense of smelling is far inferior to that of the vulture. He never pursues, therefore, but in sight.” “Goldsmith.” This power of sight was early known, and is celebrated by the ancients. Thus, Homer, r’ - . verse 674.
- ὥστ ̓ ἀιετός ὄν ῥά τε φασὶν
Ὀξύσατον δέρκεσθαι ὑπουρανίων πετεηνῶν.
- hōst' aietos on ra te fasin
Oxusaton derkesthai hupouraniōn peteēnōn.
“As the eagle of whom it is said that it enjoys the keenest vision of
All the fowls under heaven.”
So Aelian, II. L. i. 32. Also Horace “Serm.” L. i. Sat. 3:
- tam cernit acutum
Quam aut aquila, aut serpeus Epidaurus.
The Arabic writers say that the eagle can see “four hundred parasangs.” “Damir,” as quoted by Scheutzer. It is now ascertained that birds of prey search out or discern their food rather by the sight than the smell. No sooner does a camel fall and die on the plains of Arabia, than there may be seen in the far-distant sky apparently a black speck, which is soon discovered to be a vulture hastening to its prey. From that vast distance the bird, invisible to human eye, has seen the prey stretched upon the sand and immediately commences toward it its rapid flight.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 39:29. Her eyes behold afar off. — The eagle was proverbial for her strong and clear sight. So Horace, lib. i., sat. iii., ver. 25: -
Cum tua pervideas oculis mala lippus inunctis,
Cur in amicorum vitas tam cernis acutum,
Quam aut aquila, aut serpens Epidaurius?
"For wherefore while you carelessly pass by
Your own worst vices with unheeding eye,
Why so sharp-sighted in another's fame,
Strong as an eagle's ken, or dragon's beam?"
FRANCIS.
So AElian, lib. i., cap. 42. And Homer, Iliad xvii., calls the eagle οξυτατον ὑπουρανιων πετεηνων, "The most quick-sighted of all fowls under heaven."
