Job 39:27

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“Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?”

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BSBPD

“Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Is it at thy command that the eagle mounteth up, And maketh her nest on high?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“At thy command goeth an eagle up high? Or lifteth he up his nest?”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 39:27 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.
  2. 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,
  3. Psalms 103:5who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
  4. Proverbs 23:5When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
  5. Proverbs 30:19the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship at sea, and the way of a man with a maiden.
  6. 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.
  7. 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 you down,” declares the LORD.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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