Job 39:18

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

Job 39:18 Meaning and Commentary

Job 39:18

What time she lifted up herself on high
It is sometimes eight foot high ^F12; when alarmed with approaching danger she raises up herself, being sitting on the ground, and erects her wings for flight, or rather running;

she scorneth the horse and his rider;
being then, as Pliny ^F13 says, higher than a man on horseback, and superior to a horse in swiftness; and though horsemen have been able to take wild asses and goats, very swift creatures, yet never ostriches, as Xenophon relates ^F14 of those in Arabia; and this creature has another method, when pursued, by which it defies and despises, as well as hurts and incommodes its pursuers, which is by casting stones backward at them with its feet as out of a sling ^F15.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Philosoph. Transact. abridged, vol. 2. p. 360.
F13 Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 10. c. 1.
F14 De Expedit. Cyri, l. 1.
F15 Plin. ut supra. (Nat. Hist. l. 10. c. 1.) Aelian. de Animal. l. 4. c. 37.

Job 39:18 In-Context

16 Se endurece para con sus hijos, como si no fuesen suyos, no temiendo que su trabajo haya sido en vano;

17 porque Dios lo hizo olvidar de sabiduría, y no le dio inteligencia.

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 espantarás tú como a alguna langosta? El resoplido de su nariz es formidable;