Job 39:29
From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
From thence she seeketh the prey,.... From the high rock; from whence she can look down into valleys, and even into the sea; and spy what is for her purpose, and descend and seize upon them; as lambs, fawns, geese, shellfish, &c. though they may lie in the most hidden and secret places. Wherefore in the original text it is, "she diggeth the prey or food" {s}; as treasure hid in secret is dug or diligently searched for; and for which she is qualified by the sharpness of her sight, as follows:
and her eyes behold afar off; from the high rocks and higher clouds, even from the high sky, as Aelianus {t} expresses it; and who observes that she is the most sharp sighted of all birds; and so, Homer {u} says, some affirm.
{s} lka rpx "fodit escam"; Montanus, Mercerus.
{t} De Animal. l. 2. c. 26. & l. 1. c. 42. Aristot. & Plin. ut supra. (Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 32. Nat. Hist. l. 10. c. 3.)
{u} Iliad. 17. v. 674, 675. so Diodor. Sic. l. 3. p. 145.