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Job 39:7
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(39:10) Il se rit du tumulte de la ville, il n'entend pas le cri du conducteur.
Il se rit du tumulte des villes, Il n'entend pas les cris d'un maître.
Leurs fans se portent bien, ils croissent dans les blés; ils s'écartent, et ne retournent plus vers elles.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
scorneth: Job 39:18, Job 3:18, Isaiah 31:4
driver: Heb. exactor, Exodus 5:13-16, Exodus 5:18, Isaiah 58:3
Reciprocal: Job 39:10 - General Job 41:28 - slingstones
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He scorneth the multitude of the city,.... Choosing rather to be alone in the wilderness and free than to be among a multitude of men in a city, and be a slave as the tame ass; or it despises and defies a multitude of men, that may come out of cities to take it, Leo Africanus says r it yields to none for swiftness but Barbary horses: according to Xenophon s, it exceeds the horse in swiftness; and when pursued by horsemen, it will outrun them, and stand still and rest till they come near it, and then start again; so that there is no taking it, unless many are employed. Aristotle t says it excels in swiftness; and, according to Bochart u, it has its name in Hebrew from the Chaldee word פדא, "to run". Or it may be rendered, "the noise of the city", so Cocceius; the stir and bustle in it, through a multiplicity of men in business;
neither regardeth he the crying of the driver; or "hears" w: he neither feels his blows, nor hears his words; urging him to move faster and make quicker dispatch, as the tame ass does; he being neither ridden nor driven, nor drawing in a cart or plough.
r Ut supra. (Descriptio Africae, l. 9. p. 752.) s Ut supra. (De Expedition. Cyril, l. 1.) t Hist. Animal. l. 6. c. 36. u Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 1. c. 9. col. 63. w לא ישמע "non audiet", Pagninus, Montanus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He scorneth the multitude of the city - That is, he sets all this at defiance; he is not intimidated by it. He finds his home far away from the city in the wild freedom of the wilderness.
Neither regardeth he the crying of the driver - Margin, “exacter.” The Hebrew word properly means a collector of taxes or revenue, and hence, an oppressor, and a driver of cattle. The allusion here is to a driver, and the meaning is, that he is not subject to restraint, but enjoys the most unlimited freedom.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 39:7. He scorneth the multitude — He is so swift that he cannot be run or hunted down. See the description in Job 39:5.
