The LORD Speaks of His Creation
Job 39:27
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?
- KJV
- Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?at…: Heb. by thy mouth
- WEB
- Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?
- ASV
- Is it at thy command that the eagle mounteth up, And maketh her nest on high?
- LSV
- At your command does an eagle go up high? Or lift up his nest?
- YLT
- At thy command goeth an eagle up high? Or lifteth he up his nest?
- DBY
- Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make his nest on high?
- DRC
- Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest in high places?
- GNV39:30
- Doeth the eagle mount vp at thy commandement, or make his nest on hie?
- JPS
- Doth the vulture mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
- LXXE
- And does the eagle rise at thy command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest,
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אִם־עַל־פִּ֭יךָ יַגְבִּ֣יהַּ נָ֑שֶׁר וְ֝כִ֗י יָרִ֥ים קִנּֽוֹ׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἐπὶ δὲ σῷ προστάγματι ὑψοῦται ἀετὸς, γὺψ δὲ ἐπὶ νοσσιᾶς αὐτοῦ καθεσθεὶς αὐλίζεται,
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Cross-references most cited first
- Jeremiah 49:16The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring…
- Obadiah 1:4Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
- Exodus 19:4‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.
- Hosea 8:1Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.
- Isaiah 40:31But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
- Proverbs 23:5When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
- Leviticus 11:13Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
- Psalms 103:5who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 39:27 in most Bibles