Job 39:27
At your command does an eagle go up high? Or lift up his nest?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
In Context
26By your understanding does a hawk fly? Does he spread his wings to the south?
28He inhabits a rock, || Indeed, he lodges on the tooth of a rock, and fortress.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:13And these you detest of the bird—they are not eaten, they [are] an abomination: the eagle, and the bearded vulture, and the osprey,
Proverbs 23:5For wealth makes wings to itself, || It flies to the heavens as an eagle.
Isaiah 40:31But those expecting YHWH pass [to] power, || They raise up the pinion as eagles, || They run and are not fatigued, || They go on and do not faint!
Hosea 8:1“To your mouth—a horn, || As an eagle against the house of YHWH, || Because they transgressed My covenant, || And against My law they have rebelled.
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 →