Job 39:27
Will the eagle lift herself up at your command and make her nest in steep places?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
In Context
26Does the hawk grow feathers by means of your wisdom, spreading her wings towards the south?
28She dwells among the rocks, and she lingers among broken boulders and inaccessible cliffs.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:13These are those things among the birds which you must not eat, and which are to be avoided by you: the eagle, and the griffin, and the osprey,
Proverbs 23:5Do not raise your eyes toward wealth that you are not able to have. For they will make themselves wings, like those of an eagle, and they will fly in the sky.
Isaiah 40:31But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will take up wings like eagles. They will run and not struggle. They will walk and not tire.
Hosea 8:1Let there be a trumpet in your throat, like an eagle over the house of the Lord, on behalf of those who have transgressed my covenant and violated my law.
Matthew Henry on Job 39:27-30
Description of the Hawk and Eagle. ( b. c. 1520.) 26 Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south? 27 Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? 28 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. 29 From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. 30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she. The birds of the air are proofs of the wonderful power and providences of God, as well as… Read the whole commentary →