Job 39:29 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁹From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.

Job 39:29 —

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Job 9:26
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

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Atheism Attributes of God Birds Eagle God Guidance Lord Majesty

Commentary

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

(vv. 26-30)

The birds of the air are proofs of the wonderful power and providences of God, as well as the beasts of the earth; God here refers particularly to two stately ones:—1. The hawk, a noble bird of great strength and sagacity, and yet a bird of prey, Job 39:26. This bird is here taken notice of for her flight, which is swift and strong, and especially for the course she steers towards the south, whith…

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

(vv. 29)

29. seeketh--is on the lookout for. behold--The eagle descries its prey at an astonishing distance, by sight, rather than smell.