Job 39:26

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?

Literal

By your understanding does the hawk soar and spread his wings toward the south?

Latin

Numquid per sapientiam tuam plumescit accipiter, expandens alas suas ad austrum?

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Job 38:1–40:5

God challenges Job. Job admits he cannot judge the moral world. God shows Job's ignorance of the natural world's elements related to the realm of heaven, weather, animals, and birds (38:4–21; 22–38; 39–39:30).

Theme notes and profiles

Complaints God’s Uniqueness

Events

Job's Trialc. 1650 BC

Related verses

Jeremiah 8:7
Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
Song of Solomon 2:12
The flowers have appeared in the countryside; the season of singing has come, and the cooing of turtledoves is heard in our land.
Deuteronomy 14:15
…the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
Leviticus 16:11
When Aaron presents the bull for his sin offering and makes atonement for himself and his household, he is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering.

Glossary

Book of Job Hawk Proverbs, Book of Wisdom Literature

Topics

Birds: Habits of Birds: Unclean: Hawk God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Hawk: A Carnivorous and Ceremonially Unclean Bird

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