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Job 39:21
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He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength;he charges into battle.
He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength: He goes out to meet the armed men.
He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
He paws in the valley and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons.
It paws wildly, enjoying its strength, and charges into battle.
It paws the ground in the valley, exulting mightily, it goes out to meet the weapons.
"He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength; He goes out to meet the weapons [of armed men].
"He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength; He goes out to meet the battle.
He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength: He goes out to meet the armed men.
He diggeth in the valley, and reioyceth in his strength: he goeth foorth to meete the harnest man.
He paws in the valley and rejoices in his power;He goes out to meet the weapons.
He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he charges into battle.
Before horses are ridden into battle, they paw at the ground, proud of their strength.
It paws with force and exults with vigor, then charges into the battle;
He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in [his] strength; he goeth forth to meet the armed host.
A horse is happy to be so strong. It scratches the ground with its foot and runs into battle.
He paws in the plain, and rejoices in the valley; he goes forth armed to the battle.
They eagerly paw the ground in the valley; they rush into battle with all their strength.
They paw in the valley, and it exults with strength; it goes out to meet the battle.
He paws in the valley and he rejoices in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons;
he breaketh ye grounde with the hoffes of his fete chearfully in his strength, and runneth to mete the harnest men.
He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth out to meet the armed men.
He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.
He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength; he goeth out to meet the clash of arms.
He paweth in the valley, and reioyceth in his strength: hee goeth on to meet the armed men.
He breaketh the grounde with the hooffes of his feete, he reioyceth cherefully in his strength, and runneth to meete the harnest men.
He paws exulting in the plain, and goes forth in strength into the plain.
He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth out to meet the armed men.
He diggith erthe with the foot, he `fulli ioieth booldli; he goith ayens armed men.
He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength: He goes out to meet the armed men.
He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in [his] strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
It paws the earth and rejoices in its strength when it charges out to battle.
He hits his foot against the ground in the valley, and has joy in his strength. He goes out to meet the battle.
It paws violently, exults mightily; it goes out to meet the weapons.
He diggeth into the plain, and rejoiceth in vigour, he goeth forth to meet armour;
He breaketh up the earth with his hoof, he pranceth boldly, he goeth forward to meet armed men.
He paws in the valley, and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons.
They dig in a valley, and he rejoiceth in power, He goeth forth to meet the armour.
"He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength; He goes out to meet the weapons.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
He paweth: or, His feet dig, Judges 5:22
and: 1 Samuel 17:4-10, 1 Samuel 17:42, Psalms 19:5, Jeremiah 9:23
he goeth: Proverbs 21:31, Jeremiah 8:6
armed men: Heb. armour
Reciprocal: Job 41:26 - The sword
Cross-References
And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech and Phichol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.
The LORD was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
There is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"
So it was, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he did not heed her, to lie with her or to be with her.
And so it was, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and fled outside,
that she called to the men of her house and spoke to them, saying, "See, he has brought in to us a Hebrew to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.
So she kept his garment with her until his master came home.
23 The keeper of the prison did not look into anything that was under Joseph's authority, [fn] because the Lord was with him; and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper.
So he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison, the place where Joseph was confined.
And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and it shall be, when you go, that you shall not go empty-handed.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He paweth in the valley,.... Where armies are usually pitched and set in battle army, and especially the cavalry, for which the valley is most convenient; and here the horse is impatient of engaging, cannot stand still, but rises up with his fore feet and paws and prances, and, as the word signifies, digs the earth and makes it hollow, by a continual striking upon it; so generally horses are commonly described in this manner s;
and rejoiceth in [his] strength; of which he is sensible, and glories in it; marches to the battle with pride and stateliness, defying, as it were, the enemy, and as if sure of victory, of which he has knowledge when obtained; for Lactantius says t of horses, when conquerors they exult, when conquered they grieve; it has its name in the Hebrew language from rejoicing u;
he goeth on to meet the armed men; without any fear or dread of them, as follows.
s "Cavatque tellurem". Virgil. Georgic. l. 3. v. 87. t Institut. l. 3. c. 8. u שוש "gavisus est". Vid. Buxtorf. in voce סוס.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He paweth in the valley - Margin, “or, His feet dig.” The marginal reading is more in accordance with the Hebrew. The reference is to the well known fact of the “pawing” of the horse with his feet, as if he would dig up the ground. The same idea occurs in Virgil, as quoted above:
caavatque
Tellurem, et solido graviter solar ungula cornu.
Also in Apollonius, L. iii. “Argonauticon:”
Ὡς δ ̓ ἀρήΐος ἵππος, ἐελδόμενος πολεμοίο,
Σκαρθμῷ ἐπιχρεμέθων κρούει πέδον.
Hōs d' arēios hippos, eeldomenos polemoio,
Skarthmō epichremethōn krouei pedon.
“As a war-horse, impatient for the battle,
Neighing beats the ground with bis hoofs”
He goeth on to meet the armed men - Margin, “armor.” The margin is in accordance with the Hebrew, but still the idea is substantially the same. The horse rushes on furiously against the weapons of war.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 39:21. He paweth in the valley — רעם yachperu, "they dig in the valley," i.e., in his violent galloping, in every pitch of his body, he scoops up sods out of the earth. Virgil has seized this idea also, in his cavat tellurem; "he scoops out the ground." See before.
