Teks -- Job 39:25 (NET)

39:25 At the sound of the trumpet, it says, ‘Aha!’ And from a distance it catches the scent of battle, the thunderous shouting of commanders, and the battle cries.

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Wesley: Job 39:25 - Ha, ha

An expression of joy and alacrity declared by his proud neighings.

Wesley: Job 39:25 - Thunder

The loud and joyful clamour begun by the commanders, and followed by the soldiers when they are ready to join battle.

JFB: Job 39:25 - saith

Poetically applied to his mettlesome neighing, whereby he shows his love of the battle.

JFB: Job 39:25 - smelleth

Snuffeth; discerneth (Isa 11:3, Margin).

JFB: Job 39:25 - thunder

Thundering voice.

Clarke: Job 39:25 - He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha

He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha - The original is peculiarly emphatical: האח Heach ! a strong, partly nasal, partly guttural sound, exactly resembling the first note which the horse emits in neighing. The strong, guttural sounds in this hemistich are exceedingly expressive: האח ומרחוק יריח מלחמה Heach ! umerachok yariach milchamah ; "Heach, for from afar he scenteth the battle.

The reader will perceive that Mr. Good has given a very different meaning to Job 39:20 from that in the present text, Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? by translating the Hebrew thus: -

"Hast thou given him to launch forth as an arrow?

The word ארבה arbeh , which we translate locust or grasshopper, and which he derives from רבה rabah , the א aleph being merely formative, he says, "may as well mean an arrow as it does in Job 16:13, רביו rabbaiv , ‘ His arrows fly around me.’ "The verb רעש raash in the word התועישנו hatharishennu , "Canst thou make him afraid?’ he contends, "signifies to tremble, quiver, rush, launch, dart forth; and, taken in this sense, it seems to unite the two ideas of rapidity and coruscation."This is the principal alteration which this learned man has made in the text

I shall conclude on this subject by giving Coverdale’ s translation: Hast thou geven the horse his strength, or lerned him how to bow down his neck with feare; that he letteth himself be dryven forth like a greshopper, where as the stout neyenge that he maketh is fearfull? He breaketh the grounde with the hoffes of his fete chearfully in his strength, and runneth to mete the harnest men. He layeth aside all feare, his stomach is not abated, neither starteth he aback for eny swerde. Though the qyvers rattle upon him, though the speare and shilde glistre: yet russheth he in fearsley, and beateth upon the grounde. He feareth not the noise of the trompettes, but as soone as he heareth the shawmes blowe, Tush (sayeth he) for he smelleth the batell afarre of, the noyse, the captaynes, and the shoutinge. This is wonderfully nervous, and at the same time accurate.

TSK: Job 39:25 - ha

ha : Psa 70:3; Eze 26:2, Eze 36:2

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Poole: Job 39:25 - Ha, ha // He smelleth // Afar off // The thunder of the captains

Ha, ha an expression of joy and alacrity, declared by his proud neighings; whereby he doth in some sort answer the sound of the trumpets, in way of scorn and challenge.

He smelleth i.e. he perceiveth, as this phrase is used, Jud 16:9 .

Afar off at some distance, either of place, or rather of time, as the word is most frequently used. He perceives by the motion of the soldiers, and the clattering of the arms, that the battle is at hand, which is very welcome to him.

The thunder of the captains by which he understands, either the military orations which the captains make and deliver with a loud voice to animate their soldiers to the battle; or rather the loud and joyful clamour begun by the commanders, and followed by the soldiers, when they are ready to join battle, that thereby they may both daunt their enemies, and encourage themselves.

Haydock: Job 39:25 - Ha

Ha. Literally, "Vah," a sound of joy, (Menochius) or of contempt. Septuagint, The trumpet having given the sign, he will say, Well: Euge. Nothing could be more poetically descriptive of the war-horse. (Haydock)

Gill: Job 39:25 - He saith among the trumpets, ha, ha // and he smelleth the battle afar off

He saith among the trumpets, ha, ha,.... As pleased with the sound of them, rejoicing thereat, and which he signifies by neighing;

and he smelleth the battle afar off; which respects not so much the distance of place as of time; he perceives beforehand that it is near, by the preparations making for it, and particularly by what follows; so Pliny ^b says of horses, they presage a fight. The thunder of the captains, and the shouting; they understand an engagement is just about to start by the loud and thundering voice of the captains, exhorting and spiralling up their men, and giving them the word of command; and by the clamorous shout of the soldiers echoing to the speech of their captains; and which are given forth upon an onset, both to animate one another, and intimidate the enemy. Bootius ^c observes, that Virgil ^d and Oppianus ^e say most of the same things in praise of the horse which are here said, and seem to have taken them from hence; and some ^f give the horse the preference to the lion, which, when it departs from a fight, never returns, whereas the horse will. This is an emblem both of good men, Zec 10:3; and of bad men, Jer 8:6.