Job 39:29

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?

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  • Job 9:26 : 26 They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.

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    30Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?

  • Job 39:26-28
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    26The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow.

    27Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;

    28When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries.

  • Ezek 19:2-3
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    2What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.

    3And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.

  • Job 39:14-16
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    14Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?

    15Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?

    16Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,

  • Ezek 19:5-6
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    5Now when she saw that her hope was made foolish and gone, she took another of her little ones and made him into a young lion.

    6And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.

  • Ps 17:11-12
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    11They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

    12Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.

  • Prov 7:12
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    12Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

  • Job 40:24
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    24Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?

  • Isa 5:29
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    29The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.

  • Prov 9:2-3
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    2She has put her fat beasts to death; her wine is mixed, her table is ready.

    3She has sent out her women-servants; her voice goes out to the highest places of the town, saying,

  • Prov 23:28
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    28Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.

  • Ps 10:8-9
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    8He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.

    9He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

  • Job 28:7
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    7No bird has knowledge of it, and the hawk's eye has never seen it.

  • Deut 28:57
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    57And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

  • Jer 12:9
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    9My heritage is like a brightly coloured bird to me; the cruel birds are attacking her on every side: go, get together all the beasts of the field, make them come for destruction.

  • Ps 104:21
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    21The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.

  • Nah 2:11-12
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    11Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.

    12Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?

  • Prov 1:17-18
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    17Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

    18And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

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    19Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.

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    15The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos.

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    14Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,

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    14She is like the trading-ships, getting food from far away.

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    3Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.

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    13I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

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    32The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.

  • Num 23:24
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    24See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put to death.

  • Jer 13:20
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    20Let your eyes be lifted up (O Jerusalem), and see those who are coming from the north. Where is the flock which was given to you, your beautiful flock?

  • Prov 31:27
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    27She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.

  • Prov 6:5
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    5Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.

  • Hos 13:7
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    7So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;

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    25Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

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    10He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.

  • Isa 33:17
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    17Your eyes will see the king in his glory: they will be looking on a far-stretching land.

  • Job 39:18
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    18Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?

  • Prov 8:2
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    2At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;

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    9All you beasts of the field, come together for your meat, even all you beasts of the wood.

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    16... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.