Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 39:30

30. Her young ones also suck up blood : and where the slain are , there is she .

Either of the Prey which the Eagle hath brought to her Nest for them, or of that which themselves catch and kill, being betimes inured to this work by their Dams. Naturalists note of the Eagle, that she drinketh no Water but Blood only.

Where any dead Carkasses are, yea, or are like to be: For natural Historians write of the Eagles, that they can presage or smell a Battle some days before it be fought. And although some Writers affirm, that there are divers Eagles who do not feed upon Carkasses, and will not meddle with them, yet that many Eagles do feed on them is sufficiently evident by the Testimony both of Scripture as Mat. 24. 28. and of divers both ancient and later Writers.

To wit, in an instant, flying thither with admirable celerity.

Marginal references: Mat. 24. 28. [illegible: 1 word]. 17. 37.