Job 39:18
Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.
BSB
ASV
What time she lifteth up herself on high, She scorneth the horse and his rider.
KJV
What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
She lifteth up herself - When she raiseth up herself to run away. Proofs of the fleetness of this bird have already been given. It neither flies nor runs distinctly, but has a motion composed of both; and, using its wings as sails, makes great speed. So Claudian: - Vasta velut Libyae venantum vocibus ales Cum premitur, calidas cursu transmittit arenas, Inque modum veli sinuatis flamine pennis Pulverulenta volat. “Xenophon says, Cyrus had horses that could overtake the goat and the wild ass; but none that could reach this creature.
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Job 5:22You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth.
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I will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.
No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it.
You will tread on the lion and cobra; you will trample the young lion and serpent.
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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.
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What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your…
I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads
You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow,…
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the…