Job 39:24

_HE SWALLOWETH THE GROUND WITH FIERCENESS AND RAGE: NEITHER BELIEVETH HE THAT IT IS THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET._ Swalloweth - fretting with impatience, he draws the ground toward him with his hoof, as if he would swallow it. The parallelism shows this to be the sense: not, as Maurer, 'scours over it.' NEITHER BELIEVETH - for joy. Rather, 'he will not stand still х_ YA'ªMIYN_ (H539), from _ 'AAMEEN_ (H543), to be firm] when the note of the trumpet' (soundeth)....

HE SWALLOWETH THE GROUND - He seems as if he would absorb the earth. That is, he strikes his feet into it with such fierceness, and raises up the dust in his prancing, as if he would devour it. This figure is unusual with us, but it is common in the Arabic. See Schultens, “_in loc_.,” and Bochart, “Hieroz,” P. i. L. ii. c. viii. pp. 143-145. So Statius: _Stare loco nescit, pereunt vestigia mille_ _Ante fugam, absentemque ferit gravis ungula campum._ _Th’ impatient courser pants in every’ vein,_ _And pawing seems to beat the distant plain;_ Hills, vales, and floods, appear

EXPOSITION JOB 39:1 This chapter completes the survey of animate nature begun at Job 38:39. The habits and instincts of the wild goat, the wild ass, and wild cattle are first noticed (Job 38:1); then a transition is made to the most remarkable of birds, the ostrich (Job 38:13). Next, the horse is described, and, as it were, depicted, in a passage of extraordinary fire and brilliancy (Job 38:19-18). Finally, a return is made to remarkable birds, and the habits of the hawk and eagle obtain mention ...

HE SWALLOWETH THE GROUND WITH FIERCENESS AND RAGE,.... Being so eager for the battle, and so full of fierceness and rage, he bounds the plain with such swiftness that he seems rather to swallow up the ground than to run upon it; NEITHER BELIEVETH HE THAT [IT IS] THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET; for joy at hearing it; or he will not trust to his ears, but will see with his eyes whether the battle is ready, and therefore pushes forward. Mr. Broughton and others read it, "he will not stand still at the noise of the trumpet"; and the word signifies firm and stable, as well as to believe; when he hears the trumpet sound, the alarm of war, as a preparation for the battle, he knows not how to a stand; there is scarce any holding him in, but he rushes into the battle at once, Jeremiah 8:6. a "Stare loco nescit". Virgil. Georgic. l. 3. v. 84. "Ut fremit acer equus", c. Ovid.

CHAPTER S 38:39--39:30 _ 1. The beasts of prey (Job 38:39)_ 2. The wild goats, the ass, the unicorn and the ostrich (Job 39:1) 3. The horse, the hawk and the eagle (Job 39:19) Job 38:39. God's own wisdom and power in nature, as witnessed to by Himself, is followed by His witness as to the sustenance of His creatures, how mercifully He provides for their need. This section begins with the query, “Knowest thou?” Could he hunt the prey of the lion, or fill the ravenous appetite of their young? God considers the young, even so unclean a bird as the raven has its food provided by God. Wonderful it is to read that the young rave

Job 38:39 Ch. Job 39:30. The manifoldness of the Divine Mind as displayed in the world of animal life The instances chosen are the lion and the raven (Job 38:39); the wild goats and the hinds (ch. Job 39:1-4); the wild ass (Job 38:5; the wild ox (Job 38:9); the ostrich (Job 38:13); the war horse (Job 38:19); the hawk and the eagle ...

HAST THOU GIVEN THE HORSE STRENGTH, &C.— It is difficult to express violent motions, which are fleeting and transitory, either in colours or words. In poetry, it requires great spirit in thought, and energy in style, of which we find more in the eastern poetry than in either the Greek or Roman. The great Creator, who accommodated himself to those to whom he vouchsafed to speak, has put into the mouths of his prophets such sublime sentiments and exalted language as must abash the pride and wit of man. In this book of Job, _the most ancient poem in the world,_ we have great variety of such paintings and descriptions. The description before us, of the horse, is one of these. Homer has a fine similitude of a horse, which Virgil has copied from him, and which is thus admirably translated: The fiery courser, when he hears from far, The sprightly trumpets, and the shouts of war, Pricks up his...

2. And of the animal world (Job 39:1, Job 40:2) TEXT 39:1-30 to Job 40:2 39 KNOWEST THOU THE TIME WHEN THE WILD GOATS OF THE ROCK BRING FORTH? _Or_ canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? 2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? Or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? 3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, They cast out their pains. 4 Then- young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field; They go forth and return not again. 5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bonds of the swift ass, 6 Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling place? 7 He scorneth the tumult of the

THE FIRST SPEECH OF THE ALMIGHTY (CONCLUDED) Chs. Job 38:39 and Job 38:39 depict the wonders of animate creation, and the instincts with which animals are gifted by the providence of God. In view of His works Job must learn to trust Him and to believe in His goodness. 1-4. The wild goat or ibex....

JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 39 GOD SPEAKS ABOUT BIRDS AND ANIMALS WILD ANIMALS V1 You do not know when the mountain goats are born. You do not watch the birth of the young goats. V2 You have not counted the months that the female goats are pregnant. (That is, when a female waits to give birth.) V3 The female goats bend their legs and the young goats are born. And then, their pains end. V4 The young goats grow. They become strong. They leave their mothers. And the young goats will not return. V5 Someone has freed the wild