The LORD Speaks of His Creation
Job 39:26
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south?
- KJV
- Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?
- WEB
- “Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?
- ASV
- Is it by thy wisdom that the hawk soareth, And stretcheth her wings toward the south?
- LSV
- By your understanding does a hawk fly? Does he spread his wings to the south?
- YLT
- By thine understanding flieth a hawk? Spreadeth he his wings to the south?
- DBY
- Doth the hawk fly by thine intelligence, [and] stretch his wings toward the south?
- DRC
- Doth the hawk wax feathered by thy wisdom, spreading her wings to the south?
- GNV39:29
- Shall the hauke flie by thy wisedome, stretching out his wings toward the South?
- JPS
- Doth the hawk soar by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?
- LXXE
- And does the hawk remain steady by thy wisdom, having spread out her wings unmoved, looking toward the region of the south?
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- Written (Ketiv): כְּנָפוֹ (“wing its”). Read aloud (Qere): כְּנָפָ֣יו (“wings its”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads כְּנָפָ֣ו; read aloud (Qere) reads כְּנָפָ֣יו (“wings its”).
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- הֲֽ֭מִבִּינָ֣תְךָ יַֽאֲבֶר־נֵ֑ץ יִפְרֹ֖שׂ כנפו לְתֵימָֽן׃Read aloud as (qere): כְּנָפָ֣יו
- LXX-Br
- Ἐκ δὲ τῆς σῆς ἐπιστήμης ἕστηκεν ἱέραξ, ἀναπετάσας τὰς πτέρυγας, ἀκίνητος, καθορῶν τὰ πρὸς Νότον;
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Cross-references most cited first
- Leviticus 16:11When 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.
- Jeremiah 8:7Even 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.
- Deuteronomy 14:15the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
- Song of Songs 2:12The flowers have appeared in the countryside; the season of singing has come, and the cooing of turtledoves is heard in our land.
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 39:26 in most Bibles