Teks -- Job 39:29 (NET)

39:29 From there it spots its prey, its eyes gaze intently from a distance.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Job 39:29 - Her eyes

Her sight is exceeding sharp and strong, so that she is able to look upon the sun with open eyes, and to behold the smallest prey upon the earth or sea, when she is mounted out of our sight.

JFB: Job 39:29 - seeketh

Is on the lookout for.

JFB: Job 39:29 - behold

The eagle descries its prey at an astonishing distance, by sight, rather than smell.

Clarke: Job 39:29 - Her eyes behold afar off

Her eyes behold afar off - The eagle was proverbial for her strong and clear sight. So Horace, lib. i., sat. iii., ver. 25: -

Cum tua pervideas oculis mala lippus inunctis

Cur in amicorum vitas tam cernis acutum

Quam aut aquila, aut serpens Epidaurius

"For wherefore while you carelessly pass b

Your own worst vices with unheeding eye

Why so sharp-sighted in another’ s fame

Strong as an eagle’ s ken, or dragon’ s beam?

Francis

So Aelian, lib. i., cap. 42. And Homer, Iliad xvii., calls the eagle οξυτατον ὑπουρανιων πετεηνων, "The most quick-sighted of all fowls under heaven."

TSK: Job 39:29 - she // her

she : Job 9:26

her : The eagle is proverbial for her strong and clear sight.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Job 39:29

Her sight is exceeding sharp and strong, so that she is able to look upon the sun with open eyes, and to behold the smallest prey upon the earth or sea, when she is mounted out of our sight; which when she spies, she flies to it with incredible swiftness, even like an arrow out of a bow.

Haydock: Job 39:29 - Off

Off. The eagle was remarkably (Calmet) quick-sighted, (Worthington) as well as the serpent. (Horace i. Sat. iii.; Homer, Iliad xvii.) ---

They say it can discern a fly or a fish from the highest situation; (Bochart) and if its young seem dazzled with the sun-beams, it hurls them down as spurious. (Pliny x. 3.)

Gill: Job 39:29 - From thence she seeketh the prey // and her eyes behold afar off

From thence she seeketh the prey,.... From the high rock; from whence she can look down into valleys, and even into the sea; and spy what is for her purpose, and descend and seize upon them; as lambs, fawns, geese, shellfish, &c. though they may lie in the most hidden and secret places. Wherefore in the original text it is, "she diggeth the prey or food" ^s; as treasure hid in secret is dug or diligently searched for; and for which she is qualified by the sharpness of her sight, as follows:

and her eyes behold afar off; from the high rocks and higher clouds, even from the high sky, as Aelianus ^t expresses it; and who observes that she is the most sharp sighted of all birds; and so, Homer ^u says, some affirm.