By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
His neesings, х `ªTiyshaah (H5846)]. Translate, 'his sneezing causeth a light to shine.' Amphibious animals, emerging after having long held their breath under water, respire by violently expelling the breath like one sneezing: in the effort the eyes, which are usually directed toward the sun while it basks in the sunshine, seem to flash fire: or it is the expelled breath that in the sun seems to emit light.
Eyelids of morning. The Egyptian hieroglyphics paint the eyes of the crocodile as the symbol for morning, because the eyes appear the first thing, before the whole body emerges from the deep ('Horae Hieroglyphicae,' 1: 65; Bochart).