Giobbe 39:24

24 Con fremente furia divora la terra. Non sta più fermo quando suona la tromba.

Giobbe 39:24 Meaning and Commentary

Job 39:24

He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage
Being so eager for the battle, and so full of fierceness and rage, he bounds the plain with such swiftness that he seems rather to swallow up the ground than to run upon it;

neither believeth he that [it is] the sound of the trumpet;
for joy at hearing it; or he will not trust to his ears, but will see with his eyes whether the battle is ready, and therefore pushes forward. Mr. Broughton and others read it, "he will not stand still at the noise of the trumpet"; and the word signifies firm and stable, as well as to believe; when he hears the trumpet sound, the alarm of war, as a preparation for the battle, he knows not how to ^F1 stand; there is scarce any holding him in, but he rushes into the battle at once, ( Jeremiah 8:6 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 "Stare loco nescit". Virgil. Georgic. l. 3. v. 84. "Ut fremit acer equus" Ovid. Metamorph. l. 3. Fab. 10. v. 704.

Giobbe 39:24 In-Context

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

23 Gli risuona addosso il turcasso, la folgorante lancia e il dardo.

24 Con fremente furia divora la terra. Non sta più fermo quando suona la tromba.

25 Com’ode lo squillo, dice: Aha! e fiuta da lontano la battaglia, la voce tonante dei capi, e il grido di guerra.

26 E’ l’intelligenza tua che allo sparviere fa spiccare il volo e spiegar l’ali verso mezzogiorno?