Job 39

Job 39:3

THey bow themselves] a description of the manner of these beasts bringing forth their young without any humane help, which tame and house-bred beasts oftentimes have.

Job 39:4

Are in good liking] notwithstanding the hardnesse of their birth, by reason of their dams exceeding dry temperature: [goe forth] they quickly forsake their dammes, and get pasture for themselves.

Job 39:5

Who hath] is it not I alone that have given this beast that quality that it willby no meanes be made tame?

Job 39:7

The multitude] the Italian, the noise, or the multitude; for his fierce and savage nature, causeth him to shun, and as one should say, dildaine inhabited places: [Neither regardeth] he is not like a poore slave in a chaine, who is called upon and beaten to his work, see Iob 3. 18.

Job 39:9

The Unicorne] this is likewise a very fierce beast which now adayes is very rare, but anciently was more common.

Job 39:12

Bring home] by his labour bring home the encrease of thy seed, or draw it to thy house as other kinde of cattell doe.

Job 39:14

Leaveth] according to the nature of that bird, which never sitteth upon, nor hatcheth its egges, but covereth them with the sand in the Sun, whose heat doth hatch them.

Job 39:16

Her labour] in laying of the egges which doth not cause any such care or love towards her young ones in this bird, as there is in other birds.

Job 39:17

Of wisedome] that is to say, it hath not such fore-cast to provide for its young ones by a naturall instinct as other foules and beasts have.

Job 39:18

What time] being followed by hunters on horse-back, she easily escapeth from them, partly by running, and partly by raising her selfe a little upon her wings.

Job 39:23

The quiver] a horse-mans armes.

Job 39:24

Neither believeth he] poeticall termes; hee doth so rage and burne with desire of battell, that when hee heares the trumpet sound a charge, hee can hardly believe it. Others, he cannot stand still, when hee hath once heard the sound of the trumpet.

Job 39:26

And stretch] after that hee hath cst his feathers, hee returneth to hotter climates.

Job 39:29

Her eyes] the eagle is very sharp fighted, and will see a great way off.

Job 39:30

Suck up] they drink no water, but in stead of drink, they suck up the bloud of the prey: [the slaine] the eagle hath also a very tender smell, so that shee will sent out dead carkasses a great way off, and flie thither. Which Iesus Christ; Matth. 24. 28. Applyeth by similitude unto the motion of the holy Ghost in the faithfull, who giveth them the true odour of saith from heaven to earth, and causeth them to come to him alone, who dyed for their sinnes, and is the true food of the soules.