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Job 39:20 KJV
Job · chapter 39 · verse 20
Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.Job 39:20 · King James Version
Job 39:20 in context
18What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
19Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
20Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.
21He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
22He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- grasshopperʼarbeha locustH697 →
- nostrilsnachara snortingH5170 →
- afraidrâʻashto undulate (as the earth, the sky, etcH7493 →
- gloryhôwdgrandeurH1935 →
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God, having displayed his own power in those creatures that are strong and despise man, here shows it in one scarcely inferior to any of them in strength, and yet very tame and serviceable to man, and that is the horse, especially the horse that is prepared against the day of battle and is serviceable to man at a time…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 19-25