The LORD Speaks of His Creation
Job 39:18
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.
- KJV
- What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
- WEB
- When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.
- ASV
- What time she lifteth up herself on high, She scorneth the horse and his rider.
- LSV
- At the time she lifts herself up on high, || She laughs at the horse and his rider.
- YLT
- At the time on high she lifteth herself up, She laugheth at the horse and at his rider.
- DBY
- What time she lasheth herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
- DRC
- When time shall be, she setteth up her wings on high: she scorneth the horse and his rider.
- GNV39:21
- When time is, he mounteth on hie: he mocketh the horse and his rider.
- JPS
- When the time cometh, she raiseth her wings on high, and scorneth the horse and his rider.
- LXXE
- In her season she will lift herself on high; she will scorn the horse and his rider.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- כָּ֭עֵת בַּמָּר֣וֹם תַּמְרִ֑יא תִּֽשְׂחַ֥ק לַ֝סּ֗וּס וּלְרֹֽכְבֽוֹ׃
- LXX-Br
- Κατὰ καιρὸν ἐν ὕψει ὑψώσει, καταγελάσεται ἵππου, καὶ τοῦ ἐπιβάτου αὐτοῦ.
Who and where
◆ Job's Trial
People, places and events the Theographic dataset links to this verse.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
OstrichBirdsOstrich, TheOstrichesEagleCondescension of GodReadings, SelectHorse, TheScornOmnipotence
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Job 39:7He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.
- Job 39:22He laughs at fear, frightened of nothing; he does not turn back from the sword.
- Job 41:29A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.
- 2 Kings 19:21This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
- Job 5:22You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 39:18 in most Bibles