Job 39:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 39

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¹⁸What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

Job 39:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 41:29
Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
Job 39:7
He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
Job 5:22
At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
Job 39:22
He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
2 Kings 19:21
This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-18)

The ostrich is a wonderful animal, a very large bird, but it never flies. Some have called it a winged camel. God here gives an account of it, and observes, I. Something that it has in common with the peacock, that is, beautiful feathers Job 39:13): Gavest thou proud wings unto the peacocks? so some read it. Fine feathers make proud birds. The peacock is an emblem of pride; when he struts, and sho…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. Notwithstanding her deficiencies, she has distinguishing excellences. lifteth ... herself--for running; she cannot mount in the air. Gesenius translates: “lashes herself” up to her course by flapping her wings. The old versions favor English Version, and the parallel “scorneth” answers to her proudly “lifting up herself.”