Job 39:26
Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south?
Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?
“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?
Is it by thy wisdom that the hawk soareth, And stretcheth her wings toward the south?
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Job 39:26
- the hawk.{Netz,} Arabic {naz,} Latin {nisus,} the hawk, so called from {natzah,} to shoot away, fly, because of the rapidity of its flight. It probably comprehends various species of the falcon family, as the ger-falcon, goshawk, and sparrowhawk.
- Leviticus 16:11; Deuteronomy 14:15
- stretch
- Is it through thy teaching that the falcon, or any other bird of passage, knows the precise time for taking flight, and the direction in which she is to go to arrive at a warmer climate?
- Song of Songs 2:12; Jeremiah 8:7