Job 39:25 BSB — MannaFest

Job 39:25

At the blast of the horn, he snorts with fervor. He catches the scent of battle from afar— the shouts of captains and the cry of war.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

As oft as the trumpet soundeth he saith, Aha! And he smelleth the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

KJV

He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

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Commentary

2 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXXI (604)

When he heareth the trumpet, he saith, Vah. He smelleth the battle afar off, the exhortation of the captains, and the howling of the army. 69. By which words this also is plainly shewn, that, in this place, nothing is said by the Lord of the irrational horse. For a brute animal cannot say, 'Vah;' but while it is said to say that, which it is quite unable to say, it is pointed out whom it designates. For 'Vah' is a word of exultation.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

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.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בְּדֵ֤י	be.Dei	in [the] sufficiency of	H1767 →
שֹׁפָ֨ר׀	sho.Far	a horn	H7782 →
יֹ֘אמַ֤ר	yo.Mar	it says	H559 →
הֶאָ֗ח	he.'Ach	aha!	H1889 →
וּֽ֭מֵרָחוֹק	U.me.ra.chok	and from a distance	H7350 →
יָרִ֣יחַ	ya.Ri.ach	it smells	H7306 →
מִלְחָמָ֑ה	mil.cha.Mah	battle	H4421 →
רַ֥עַם	Ra.'am	[the] thunder of	H7482 →
שָׂ֝רִים	Sa.rim	commanders	H8269 →
וּתְרוּעָֽה׃	u.te.ru.'Ah	and [the] battle-cry	H8643 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 70:3
May those who say, “Aha, aha!” retreat because of their shame.
leads to
- Psalms 40:15
  May those who say to me, “Aha, aha!” be appalled at their own shame.
- Proverbs 24:17–18
  Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,
- Acts 1:18
  (Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out.
Through
Ezekiel 36:2
This is what the Lord GOD says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’
leads to
- Deuteronomy 32:13
  He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,
- Ezekiel 25:3
  Tell the Ammonites to hear the word of the Lord GOD, for this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you exclaimed, “Aha!” when My sanctuary was profaned, when the land of Israel was…
- Ezekiel 35:10
  Because you have said, ‘These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will possess them,’ even though the LORD was there,
Through
Ezekiel 26:2
“Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken; it has swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will be filled,’
leads to
- Isaiah 23:1–18
  This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.
- Jeremiah 25:22
  all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea;

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Job