Job 39:29

29 From there it looks for its food; its eyes can see it from far away.

Job 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.

Job 39:29 In-Context

27 Are you the one that commands the eagle to fly and build its nest so high?

28 It lives on a high cliff and stays there at night; the rocky peak is its protected place.

29 From there it looks for its food; its eyes can see it from far away.

30 Its young eat blood, and where there is something dead, the eagle is there."