Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Does [the] hawk soar by your wisdom? Does it spread its wings to [the] south?
New American Standard Bible
Stretching his wings toward the south?
King James Version
Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?
Holman Bible
and spread its wings to the south?
International Standard Version
"Is it by your understanding that the hawk flies, spreading its wings toward the south?
A Conservative Version
Is it by thy wisdom that the hawk soars, (and) stretches her wings toward the south?
American Standard Version
Is it by thy wisdom that the hawk soareth, (And) stretcheth her wings toward the south?
Amplified
“Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars,
Stretching his wings toward the south [as winter approaches]?
Bible in Basic English
Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?
Darby Translation
Doth the hawk fly by thine intelligence, and stretch his wings toward the south?
Julia Smith Translation
From thy understanding will the hawk mount upwards? will it stretch its wings to the south?
King James 2000
Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?
Modern King James verseion
Does the hawk soar by your understanding? Will he spread his wings toward the south?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Cometh it through thy wisdom, that the Goshawk flyeth toward the South?
NET Bible
"Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars, and spreads its wings toward the south?
New Heart English Bible
"Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?
The Emphasized Bible
Is it, by thine understanding, that the Bird of Passage betaketh him to his pinions? spreadeth out his wings to the south?
Webster
Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings towards the south?
World English Bible
"Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?
Youngs Literal Translation
By thine understanding flieth a hawk? Spreadeth he his wings to the south?
Interlinear
Biynah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 39:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Birds Of Prey
25 {Whenever} a horn [sounds], it says, 'Aha!' And it smells [the] battle from a distance-- [the] thunder of [the] commanders and [the] war cry. 26 "Does [the] hawk soar by your wisdom? Does it spread its wings to [the] south? 27 Or does [the] eagle fly high at your command and construct its nest high?
Names
Cross References
Leviticus 16:11
"And Aaron shall present the sin offering's bull, which [is] for himself, and so he shall make atonement for himself and for his family; then he shall slaughter the sin offering's bull, which [is] for himself.
Deuteronomy 14:15
and the {ostrich} and the short-eared owl and the seagull and the hawk according to its kind,
Song of Songs 2:12
The blossoms {appear} {in the land}; {the time of singing has arrived}; the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
Jeremiah 8:7
Even [the] stork in heaven knows its appointed time, and [the] turtledove, and [the] swallow, and [the] song bird, they observe the time of their coming. But my people do not know the ordinance of Yahweh.