Job 39:26 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

"Does your understanding make a bird of prey fly and spread its wings toward the south?(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?

ASV:

Is it by thy wisdom that the hawk soareth, (And) stretcheth her wings toward the south?

BBE:

Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?

DBY:

Doth the hawk fly by thine intelligence, and stretch his wings toward the south?

ERV:

Doth the hawk soar by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?

JPS:

Doth the hawk soar by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?

WBS:

Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings towards the south?

WEB:

"Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?

YLT:

By thine understanding flieth a hawk? Spreadeth he his wings to the south?

Job 39:26 Cross References

XREF:

Job 39:25 "As often as the trumpet sounds he says, 'Aha!' And he scents the battle from afar, And the thunder of the captains and the war cry.

Job 39:27 "Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up And makes his nest on high? (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

39:26 Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, [and] stretch her wings toward the {p} south?
(p) That is, when cold comes, to fly into the warm countries.

WES:

39:26 Fly - So strongly, constantly, unweariedly, and swiftly. South - At the approach of winter, when wild hawks fly into warmer countries, as being impatient of cold. The birds of the air are proofs of the wonderful providence of God, as well as the beasts of the earth. God instances in two stately ones.

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:

Flieth Flight Fly Hawk Intelligence Soar Soareth Soars South Spread Spreadeth Spreads Stretch Stretches Stretcheth Stretching Takes Towards Understanding Wings Wisdom

Flieth Flight Fly Hawk Intelligence Soar South Spread Spreadeth Spreads Stretch Stretches Stretcheth Stretching Towards Understanding Wings Wisdom

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