Job 39:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.b ”

• Job 39:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  He scorneth the multitude of the city - That is, he sets all this at defiance; he is not intimidated by it. He finds his home far away from the city in the wild freedom of the wilderness. Neit...

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• Job 39:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. He scorneth the multitude - He is so swift that he cannot be run or hunted down. See the description in Job 39:5...

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• Job 39:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The multitude of the city— Or, The thronged city.

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• Job 39:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. Multitude - rather, din: he sets it at defiance, being far away from it in the freedom of the wilderness....

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• Job 39:7 - 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 39:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The crying of the driver. — Or, the shoutings of the taskmaster. The word is the same as is applied to the taskmasters of Egypt, and this suggests the question whether or not there may be a remin...

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• Job 39:7 - 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 39:7 - 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 39:7 - 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 39:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (5) Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? (6) Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. (7) He scorneth the multitude of...

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• Job 39:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  He scorneth the multitude of the city ,.... Choosing rather to be alone in the wilderness and free than to be among a multitude of men in a city, and be a slave as the tame ass; or it despises and d...

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• Job 39:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. Ver. 7. He scorneth the multitude of the city ] Heb. He laugheth. Insignis metaphora. He would scorn to be s...

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• Job 39:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Whose house I have made the wilderness Which uses and loves to dwell in desert lands; and the barren land his dwellings Called barren, not simply, for then he must be starved there, but comparati...

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• Job 39:7 - 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 39:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Man's Ignorance of the Animal Creation; Description of the Wild Goat, Hind, Wild Ass, and Unicorn. B. C.  1520....

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• Job 39:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He scorneth; either, 1. He feareth them not when they pursue him, because he is swift, and can easily escape them. Or, 2. He values them not, nor any provisions or advantages which he may have...

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• Job 39:7 - 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 39:7 - 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 39:7 - 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 39:7 - 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 39:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 5:13-16 ; Exodus 5:18 ; Isaiah 31:4 ; Isaiah 58:3 ; Job 3:18 ; Job 39:18

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• Job 39:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Scorneth — He feareth them not when they pursue him, because he is swift, and can easily escape them. Driver — He will not be brought to receive his yoke, nor to do his drudgery.

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