Job 39:20

20 ¿Por ventura le harás tú saltar como a alguna langosta? El resoplido de su nariz es formidable

Job 39:20 Meaning and Commentary

Job 39:20

Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper?
&c.] Which is frightened at every noise, and at any approach of men; but not so the horse; or canst thou move him, or cause him to skip and jump, or rather leap like a grasshopper? that is, hast thou given, or canst thou give him the faculty of leaping over hedges and ditches, for which the horse is famous? so Neptune's war horses are said ^F17 to be (euskarymoi) , good leapers;

the glory of his nostrils [is] terrible:
which may be understood of his sneezing, snorting, pawing, and neighing, when his nostrils are broad, spread, and enlarged; and especially when enraged and in battle, when he foams and fumes, and his breath comes out of his nostrils like smoke {r}, and is very terrible.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 Homeri Iliad. 13. v. 31.
F18 "Iguescunt patulae nares". Claudian. in 4. Consul. Honor.

Job 39:20 In-Context

18 A su tiempo se levanta en alto, y se burla del caballo y del que se monta en él

19 ¿Diste tú al caballo la fortaleza? ¿Vestiste tú su cerviz de relincho

20 ¿Por ventura le harás tú saltar como a alguna langosta? El resoplido de su nariz es formidable

21 escarba la tierra, se alegra en su fuerza, sale al encuentro de las armas

22 hace burla del espanto, y no teme, ni vuelve el rostro delante de la espada