Iyov 39:27

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

Iyov 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 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Iyov 39:27 In-Context

25 As often as the shofar, he snorts Aha! and he smelleth the milchamah afar off, the shout of the sarim, and the teru’ah (battle cry).

26 Doth the hawk fly by thy binah, and stretch her wings toward the south?

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

28 She dwelleth and abideth on the cliff, upon the crag of the rock, its metzudah (stronghold).

29 From there she seeketh the okhel (food, prey), and her eyes behold it from afar off.