Job 39:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.c ”

• Job 39:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? - Or, rather, “as a locust” - כארבה kā'arbeh . This is the word which is commonly applied to the locust considered as gregarious, or as appearing...

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• Job 39:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  afraid . leap. grasshopper . locust. nostrils . snorting.

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• Job 39:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.

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• Job 39:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Hast thou given the horse strength, &c.— It is difficult to express violent motions, which are fleeting and transitory, either in colours or words. In poetry, it requires great spirit in though...

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• Job 39:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. Make ... afraid - rather, 'canst thou (as I do) make him spring as the locust х raa`ash ( H7493 ) unite...

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• Job 39:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The First Speech of the Almighty (concluded) Chs. Job 38:39-41 and Job 38:39 depict the wonders of animate creation, and the instincts with which animals are gifted by the providence of God. I...

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• Job 39:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? — Rather, Hast thou made him to leap as a locust?

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• Job 39:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXVIII. THE RECONCILIATION Job 38:1 - Job 42:6 THE main argument of the address ascribed to the Almighty is contained in Chapter s 38 and 39 and in the opening verses of chapter 42. Job make...

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• Job 39:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Knowest Thou?” “Canst Thou?” Job 39:1-30 The series of questions is continued, and God asks more especially with respect to animated and organic nature. The wild goats, Job 39:1-4 ; the wild...

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• Job 39:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  And still the unveiling goes forward: the mystery of the begetting and birth of lower animals, with the sorrows of travail, and the finding of strength; the freedom and wildness and splendid untameab...

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• Job 39:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (19) В¶ Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? (20) Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. (21) He paweth in the val...

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• Job 39:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ?.... Which is frightened at every noise, and at any approach of men; but not so the horse; or canst thou move him, or cause him to skip and jump, or rath...

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• Job 39:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils [is] terrible. Ver. 20. Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? ] Which soon flincheth and flieth with the least noise....

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• Job 39:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hast thou given the horse strength? Hebrew, גבורה, geburah, his fortitude , the courage and generous confidence for which the horse is highly commended. The reader will observe, that all the great...

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• Job 39:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE WILD GOATS AND THE DEER (vv.1-4) The Lord now turns Job's attention to animals not in the least aggressive, the wild goats and the deer. Indeed, rather than aggressive, they are elusive. Did...

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• Job 39:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Description of the War-Horse. B. C. 1520.       19 Hast thou given the horse strength? hast...

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• Job 39:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  As a grasshopper; which is easily affrighted, and chased away by the least noise of a man. Or, as divers others render the place, Didst thou make him to move like a grasshopper , skipping and leap...

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• Job 39:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  Notes Job 39:13 . “ Gatest thou the goodly wings unto the peacock, or wings and feathers into the ostrich? ” (MARGIN: “The feathers of the stork and ostrich.”) The whole verse very variously rend...

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• Job 39:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 39:1 . The wild goat, on the Arabian rocks, leaps with incredible celerity from rock to rock, and leaves the dogs and wolves behind. She hides her young in those retreats. They follow the laws...

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• Job 39:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Hast thou given the horse strength? The higher teaching of Nature The intent of all these beautiful references to the works of Nature is to teach us, from the wisdom, skill, and curious designs...

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• Job 39:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 39:1-18 This chapter completes the survey of animate nature begun at Job 38:39 . The habits and instincts of the wild goat, the wild ass, and wild cattle are first noticed (...

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• Job 39:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 1. Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth, their homes being on the rocks near the summits of the mountains? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve, noting the t...

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• Job 39:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Jeremiah 8:16 ; Job 41:20 ; Job 41:21

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