Job Chapter 39 verse 18 Holy Bible
What time she lifteth up herself on high, She scorneth the horse and his rider.
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Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?
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What time she lasheth herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
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What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
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And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
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When she lifts up herself on high, She scorns the horse and his rider.
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At the time on high she lifteth herself up, She laugheth at the horse and at his rider.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider. The ostrich sometimes tries to elude pursuit by crouching and hiding behind hillocks or in hollows, making itself as little conspicuous as possible; but, when these attempts fail, and it starts off to run in the open, then it "lifts itself up" to its full elevation, beats the air with its wings, and scours along at a pace that no horse can equal. The Greeks with Xenophon, though well mounted, failed to catch a single ostrich ('Anab.,' 1:5. ยง 3).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) She lifteth up herself.--That is, either from the nest when she comes to maturity, or when she sets out to run. The ostrich has a habit of running in a curve, which alone enables horsemen to overtake and kill or capture her. As in Job 39:13 a comparison seems to be drawn between the ostrich and the stork, so here, probably, the subject spoken of is the stork. Swift and powerful as the ostrich is, yet no sooner does the stork, on the contrary, rise on high into the air than she--as, indeed, any bird--can baffle the pursuit of horsemen.
