Hiob 39:29

29 Von dort schaut er nach der Speise, und seine Augen sehen ferne.

Hiob 39:29 Meaning and Commentary

Job 39:29

From thence she seeketh the prey
From the high rock; from whence she can look down into valleys, and even into the sea; and spy what is for her purpose, and descend and seize upon them; as lambs, fawns, geese, shellfish though they may lie in the most hidden and secret places. Wherefore in the original text it is, "she diggeth the prey or food" ^F19; as treasure hid in secret is dug or diligently searched for; and for which she is qualified by the sharpness of her sight, as follows:

[and] her eyes behold afar off;
from the high rocks and higher clouds, even from the high sky, as Aelianus ^F20 expresses it; and who observes that she is the most sharp sighted of all birds; and so, Homer ^F21 says, some affirm.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 (lka rpx) "fodit escam"; Montanus, Mercerus.
F20 De Animal. l. 2. c. 26. & l. 1. c. 42. Aristot. & Plin. ut supra. (Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 32. Nat. Hist. l. 10. c. 3.)
F21 Iliad. 17. v. 674, 675. so Diodor. Sic. l. 3. p. 145.

Hiob 39:29 In-Context

27 Fliegt der Adler auf deinen Befehl so hoch, daß er sein Nest in der Höhe macht?

28 In den Felsen wohnt er und bleibt auf den Zacken der Felsen und auf Berghöhen.

29 Von dort schaut er nach der Speise, und seine Augen sehen ferne.

30 Seine Jungen saufen Blut, und wo Erschlagene liegen, da ist er.