Job 39:27 “Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?”

Job 39:27

Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?

World English Bible

Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?

American Standard Version

Is it at thy command that the eagle mounteth up, And maketh her nest on high?

Geneva Bible 1599

He swalloweth the ground for fearcenes and rage, and he beleeueth not that it is the noise of the trumpet.

Darby Translation

Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make his nest on high?

Young's Literal Translation

At thy command goeth an eagle up high? Or lifteth he up his nest?

Bible in Basic English

Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?

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Cross references

“the eagle”

Exodus 19:4 Leviticus 11:13 Psalm 103:5 Proverbs 23:5 Isaiah 40:31 Hosea 8:1

Exodus 19:4 · BSB

‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.

Leviticus 11:13 · BSB

Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

Psalm 103:5 · BSB

who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Proverbs 23:5 · BSB

When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.

Isaiah 40:31 · BSB

But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.

Hosea 8:1 · BSB

Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.

“make”

Jeremiah 49:16 Obadiah 1:4

Jeremiah 49:16 · BSB

The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you…

Obadiah 1:4 · BSB

Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

26Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south?

28He dwells on a cliff and lodges there; his stronghold is on a rocky crag.

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