Parallel Verses English Standard Version He paws in the valley and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons. King James Bible He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. American Standard Version He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth out to meet the armed men. Douay-Rheims Bible He breaketh up the earth with his hoof, he pranceth boldly, he goeth forward to meet armed men. English Revised Version He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth out to meet the armed men. Webster's Bible Translation He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. Job 39:21 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament13 The wing of the ostrich vibrates joyously, Is she pious, wing and feather? 14 No, she leaveth her eggs in the earth And broodeth over the dust, 15 Forgetting that a foot may crush them, And the beast of the field trample them. 16 She treateth her young ones harshly as if they were not hers; In vain is her labour, without her being distressed. 17 For Eloah hath caused her to forget wisdom, And gave her no share of understanding. 18 At the time when she lasheth herself aloft, She derideth the horse and horseman. As the wild ass and the ox-like oryx cannot be tamed by man, and employed in his service like the domestic ass and ox, so the ostrich, although resembling the stork in its stilt-like structure, the colour of its feathers, and its gregarious life, still has characteristics totally different from those one ought to look for according to this similarity. רננים, a wail, prop. a tremulous shrill sound (vid., Job 39:23), is a name of the female ostrich, whose peculiar cry is called in Arabic zimâr (זמר). נעלס (from עלס, which in comparison with עלץ, עלז, rarely occurs) signifies to make gestures of joy. אם, Job 39:13, is an interrogative an; חסידה, pia, is a play upon the name of the stork, which is so called: pia instar ciconiae (on this figure of speech, comp. Mehren's Rehtorik der Araber, S. 178). כּי, Job 39:14, establishes the negation implied in the question, as e.g., Isaiah 28:28. The idea is not that the hen-ostrich abandons the hatching of her eggs to the earth (עזב ל as Psalm 16:10), and makes them "glow over the dust" (Schlottm.), for the maturing energy compensating for the sitting of the parent bird proceeds from the sun's heat, which ought to have been mentioned; one would also expect a Hiph. instead of the Piel תּחמּם, which can be understood only of hatching by her own warmth. The hen-ostrich also really broods herself, although from time to time she abandons the חמּם to the sun. (Note: It does, however, as it appears, actually occur, that the female leaves the work of hatching to the sun by day, and to the male at night, and does not sit at all herself; vid., Funke's Naturgeschichte, revised by Taschenberg (1864), S. 243f.) continued... Treasury of Scripture Knowledge He paweth. or, His feet dig and he goeth Proverbs 21:31 The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD. armed men. Heb. armour Cross References Job 39:22 He laughs at fear and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword. Jeremiah 8:6 I have paid attention and listened, but they have not spoken rightly; no man relents of his evil, saying, 'What have I done?' Everyone turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle. Jump to Previous Armed Armour Arms Charges Clash Dig Exults Fear Fiercely Forth Fray Goes Host Joy Makes Meet Paws Power Rejoices Rejoiceth Rejoicing Sport Stamping Strength Valley WeaponsJump to Next Armed Armour Arms Charges Clash Dig Exults Fear Fiercely Forth Fray Goes Host Joy Makes Meet Paws Power Rejoices Rejoiceth Rejoicing Sport Stamping Strength Valley WeaponsLinks Job 39:21 NIVJob 39:21 NLT Job 39:21 ESV Job 39:21 NASB Job 39:21 KJV Job 39:21 Bible Apps Job 39:21 Biblia Paralela Job 39:21 Chinese Bible Job 39:21 French Bible Job 39:21 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |