John Gill's Exposition on Job 39:29

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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From thence she seeketh the prey, etc.] From the high rock; from whence she can look down into valleys, and even into the sea; and spy what is for her purpose, and descend and seize upon them; as lambs, fawns, geese, shellfish, etc. though they may lie in the most hidden and secret places. Wherefore in the original text it is, “she diggeth the prey or food” f1435 ; as treasure hid in secret is dug or diligently searched for; and for which she is qualified by the sharpness of her sight, as follows: [and] her eyes behold afar off; from the high rocks and higher clouds, even from the high sky, as Aelianus f1436 expresses it; and who observes that she is the most sharp sighted of all birds; and so, Homer f1437 says, some affirm.

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