World English Bible

Job 39:26

“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?”

Verse in context — Job 39

He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, 'Aha!' He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?

Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?

On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.

A poetic exploration of suffering, faith, and God’s sovereignty.