Job 39:27

27 Does the eagle soar at your command and build its nest on high?

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Job 39:27 in Other Translations

KJV

27 Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?

ESV

27 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high?

NLT

27 Is it at your command that the eagle rises to the heights to make its nest?

MSG

27 Did you command the eagle's flight, and teach her to build her nest in the heights,

CSB

27 Does the eagle soar at your command and make its nest on high?

Job 39:27 Meaning and Commentary

Job 39:27

Doth the eagle mount up at thy command
No; but by an instinct which God has placed in it, and a capacity he has given it above all other birds. They take a circuit in their flight, and bend about before they soar aloft: but the eagle steers its course directly upwards towards heaven, till out of sight; and, as Apuleius says ^F16, up to the clouds, where it rains and snows, and beyond which there is no place for thunder and lightning;

and make her nest on high?
so the philosopher says ^F17; eagles make their nests not in plains, but in high places, especially in cragged rocks, as in ( Job 39:28 ) .

FOOTNOTES:

F16 Florida 1.
F17 Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 32.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Job 39:27 In-Context

25 At the blast of the trumpet it snorts, ‘Aha!’ It catches the scent of battle from afar, the shout of commanders and the battle cry.

26 “Does the hawk take flight by your wisdom and spread its wings toward the south?

27 Does the eagle soar at your command and build its nest on high?

28 It dwells on a cliff and stays there at night; a rocky crag is its stronghold.

29 From there it looks for food; its eyes detect it from afar.

Cross References 1

1. Jeremiah 49:16; Obadiah 1:4; Habakkuk 2:9

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Job 39:27 in Other Translations

Job 39:27 Meaning and Commentary

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