Job 39:20 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Can you make it leap like a locust, when its snorting causes terror?(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.

ASV:

Hast thou made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is terrible.

BBE:

Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?

DBY:

Dost thou make him to leap as a locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.

ERV:

Hast thou made him to leap as a locust? the glory of his snorting is terrible.

JPS:

Hast thou made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is terrible.

WBS:

Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.

WEB:

Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.

YLT:

Dost thou cause him to rush as a locust? The majesty of his snorting is terrible.

Job 39:20 Cross References

XREF:

Jeremiah 8:16 From Dan is heard the snorting of his horses; At the sound of the neighing of his stallions The whole land quakes; For they come and devour the land and its fullness, The city and its inhabitants.

Joel 2:5 With a noise as of chariots They leap on the tops of the mountains, Like the crackling of a flame of fire consuming the stubble, Like a mighty people arranged for battle. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

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:

Afraid Awesome Breath Canst Cause Glory Grasshopper Hast Leap Locust Loud-sounding Majestic Majesty Nostrils Pride Proud Rush Shaking Snorting Striking Terrible Terror

Afraid Awesome Breath Cause Glory Grasshopper Leap Majestic Majesty Nostrils Pride Proud Rush Shaking Snorting Striking Terrible Terror

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