Job 39:19 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

"Can you give strength to a horse or dress its neck with a flowing mane?(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?

ASV:

Hast thou given the horse his might? Hast thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane?

BBE:

Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?

DBY:

Hast thou given strength to the horse? hast thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane?

ERV:

Hast thou given the horse his might? hast thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane?

JPS:

Hast thou given the horse his strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with fierceness?

WBS:

Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?

WEB:

"Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?

YLT:

Dost thou give to the horse might? Dost thou clothe his neck with a mane?

Job 39:19 Cross References

XREF:

Job 39:18 "When she lifts herself on high, She laughs at the horse and his rider.

Job 39:20 "Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrible. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

39:19 Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with {m} thunder?
(m) That is, given him courage? which is meant by neighing and shaking his neck.

WES:

39:19 Thunder - A strong metaphor, to denote force and terror.

MHC:

39:1-30 God inquires of Job concerning several animals. - In these questions the Lord continued to humble Job. In this chapter several animals are spoken of, whose nature or situation particularly show the power, wisdom, and manifold works of God. The wild ass. It is better to labour and be good for something, than to ramble and be good for nothing. From the untameableness of this and other creatures, we may see, how unfit we are to give law to Providence, who cannot give law even to a wild ass's colt. The unicorn, a strong, stately, proud creature. He is able to serve, but not willing; and God challenges Job to force him to it. It is a great mercy if, where God gives strength for service, he gives a heart; it is what we should pray for, and reason ourselves into, which the brutes cannot do. Those gifts are not always the most valuable that make the finest show. Who would not rather have the voice of the nightingale, than the tail of the peacock; the eye of the eagle and her soaring wing, and the natural affection of the stork, than the beautiful feathers of the ostrich, which can never rise above the earth, and is without natural affection? The description of the war-horse helps to explain the character of presumptuous sinners. Every one turneth to his course, as the horse rushes into the battle. When a man's heart is fully set in him to do evil, and he is carried on in a wicked way, by the violence of his appetites and passions, there is no making him fear the wrath of God, and the fatal consequences of sin. Secure sinners think themselves as safe in their sins as the eagle in her nest on high, in the clefts of the rocks; but I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord, #Jer 49:16". All these beautiful references to the works of nature, should teach us a right view of the riches of the wisdom of Him who made and sustains all things. The want of right views concerning the wisdom of God, which is ever present in all things, led Job to think and speak unworthily of Providence.

CONC:

Clothe Clothed Fierceness Flowing Hast Horse Mane Neck Power Quivering Strength Thunder

Clothe Clothed Fierceness Flowing Hand Horse Neck Power Quivering Strength Thunder

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