Job 39:27

“Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, etc.] No; but by an instinct which God has placed in it, and a capacity he has given it above all other birds. They take a circuit in their flight, and bend about before they soar aloft: but the eagle steers its course directly upwards towards heaven, till out of sight; and, as Apuleius says f1432, up to the clouds, where it rains and snows, and beyond which there is no place for thunder and lightning; and make her nest on high? so the philosopher says f1433; eagles make their nests not in plains, but in high places, especially in cragged rocks, as in (<183928>Job 39:28).”

“eagle--It flies highest of all birds: thence called "the bird of heaven."”

“Doth the eagle mount up at thy command? - Margin, as in Hebrew, “by thy mouth.” The meaning is, that Job had not power to direct or order the eagle in his lofty flight. The eagle has always been celebrated for the height to which it ascends. When Ramond had reached the summit of Mount Perdu, the highest of the Pyrenees, he perceived no living creature but an eagle which passed above him, flying with inconceivable rapidity in direct opposition to a furious wind. “Edin. Ency.” “Of all animals, the eagle flies highest; and from thence the ancients have given him the epithet of “the bird of heaven.” “Goldsmith.” What is particularly worth remarking here is, the accuracy with which the…”

“Mount - Flies directly upward 'till she be out of thy sight; which no other bird can do. Job 39:29”

“the eagle: Exo 19:4; Lev 11:13; Psa 103:5; Pro 23:5; Isa 40:31; Hos 8:1 at thy command: Heb. by thy mouth make: Jer 49:16; Oba 1:4 Job 39:28”