Job 39:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ When it spreads its plumes aloft, it laughs at the horse and its rider.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ What time she lifteth up herself on high, She scorneth the horse and his rider.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Yet when she lifts herself up in flight, [so swift is she that] she can laugh to scorn the horse and his rider.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ What time she lifteth up herself on high, She scorneth the horse and his rider.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ When she flaps her wings high, she laughs at horse and rider.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Yet, when the time is right, she raises her wings on high; she ridicules the horse and his rider.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ When time shall be, she setteth up her wings on high: she scorneth the horse and his rider.

Job 39:18 Cross References

2 Kings 19:21

This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you; she scorns you— virgin daughter Zion; she tosses her head—behind your back, daughter Jerusalem.

Job 39:17

because God has made it forget wisdom and given it no share in understanding.

Job 39:19

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

Job 39:22

It laughs at fear and is not dismayed; it does not turn back from the sword.

Job 39:7

It scorns the tumult of the city; it does not hear the shouts of the driver.

Job 41:29

Clubs are counted as chaff; it laughs at the rattle of javelins.

Job 5:22

At destruction and famine you shall laugh and shall not fear the wild animals of the earth.