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19 “Do you give power to the horse?
Do you clothe its neck with a mane?
20 Do you make it leap like the locust?
The majesty of its snorting is terrifying.
21 They paw in the valley, and it exults with strength;
it goes out to meet the battle.
22 It laughs at danger and is not dismayed,
and it does not turn back from before[a] the sword.
23 Upon it the quiver rattles
along with the flash of the spear and the short sword.
24 With roar and rage it races over the ground,[b]
and it cannot stand still at the sound of the horn.
25 Whenever[c] a horn sounds, it says, ‘Aha!’
And it smells the battle from a distance—
the thunder of the commanders and the war cry.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 39:22 Literally “from faces of”
  2. Job 39:24 Or “it paws the ground”; literally “it swallows the earth/ground”
  3. Job 39:25 Literally “At enough”