Giobbe 39:20

20 Sei tu che lo fai saltar come la locusta? Il fiero suo nitrito incute spavento.

Giobbe 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.

Giobbe 39:20 In-Context

18 Ma quando si leva e piglia lo slancio, si beffa del cavallo e di chi lo cavalca.

19 Sei tu che dài al cavallo il coraggio? che gli vesti il collo d’una fremente criniera?

20 Sei tu che lo fai saltar come la locusta? Il fiero suo nitrito incute spavento.

21 Raspa la terra nella valle ed esulta della sua forza; si slancia incontro alle armi.

22 Della paura si ride, non trema, non indietreggia davanti alla spada.