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Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 39:20

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Job39:20

20 Canst thou make him afraid as a grashopper ? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.

Which is easily affrighted and chased away by the least noise of a Man. Or, as divers others render the place, didst thou make him to move like a Grashopper, skipping and leaping as he goes! So he describes the posture of a gallant and generous Horse, who carvets and praunseth, and as it were danceth as he walks.

That snoring, or sound, and smoke which cometh out of his Nostrils, especially when he is inraged and ingaged in battle, which is another note of a generous Horse, and strikes a terrour into his adversary. Or the vehemency, or majesty, or magnificence of his snorting, or snoring as this word is rendered, Ier▪ 8. 16.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 word].

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