Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
He paweth in the valley - Margin, "or, His feet dig." The marginal reading is more in accordance with the Hebrew. The reference is to the well known fact of the "pawing" of the horse with his feet, as if he would dig up the ground. The same idea occurs in Virgil, as quoted above:
caavatque
Tellurem, et solido graviter solar ungula cornu .
Also in Apollonius, L. iii. "Argonauticon:"
̔ ̓ ̓́̈́ ̔́, ̓́ ́ ,
͂ͅ ̓́ ́ ́.
Hōs d' arēios hippos , eeldomenos polemoio ,
Skarthmō epichremethōn krouei pedon .
"As a war-horse, impatient for the battle,
Neighing beats the ground with bis hoofs"
He goeth on to meet the armed men - Margin, "armor." The margin is in accordance with the Hebrew, but still the idea is substantially the same. The horse rushes on furiously against the weapons of war.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Job 39:21:
Job 40:15
Psalms 147:10
Isaiah 5:28
Revelation 6:2
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