Job 39:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Do you make it leap like the locust? Its majestic snorting is terrible.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Was it you [Job] who made him to leap like a locust? The majesty of his [snorting] nostrils is terrible.

American Standard Version (1901)

Hast thou made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is terrible.

Common English Bible

cause him to leap like a locust, his majestic snorting, a fright?

Catholic Public Domain Version

Will you alarm him as the locusts do? His panic is revealed by the display of his nostrils.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Wilt thou lift him up like the locusts? The glory of his nostrils is terror.

Job 39:20 Cross References

Job 39:19

“Do you give the horse its might? Do you clothe its neck with mane?

Psalm 109:23

I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.

Jeremiah 8:16

The snorting of their horses is heard from Dan; at the sound of the neighing of their stallions the whole land quakes. They come and devour the land and all that fills it, the city and those who live in it.

Joel 2:5

As with the rumbling of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle.