Job 39:18
When time shall be, she setteth up her wings on high: she scorneth the horse and his rider.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cum tempus fuerit, in altum alas erigit : deridet equum et ascensorem ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- κατὰ καιρὸν ἐν ὕψει ὑψώσει, καταγελάσεται ἵππου καὶ τοῦ ἐπιβάτου αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כָּ֭עֵת בַּמָּר֣וֹם תַּמְרִ֑יא תִּֽשְׂחַ֥ק לַ֝סּ֗וּס וּלְרֹֽכְבֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
High. With her head erect, the ostrich is taller than a man on horseback. (Pliny x. 1.)
Its wings are used like sails, and enable it to run as fast as many birds can fly, (Calmet0 while it hurls stones at the pursuer with its feet, so as frequently to kill them. (Diodorus ii.)
Rider, as they can travel with equal speed. (Menochius) (Ver. 13.)
Adamson (Senegal) placed two negroes on one, and testified that it still went faster than any English horse. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.