John Gill Commentary Job 39:24

"He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage; Neither believeth he that it is the voice of the trumpet." — Job 39:24 (ASV)

He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage

Being so eager for the battle, and so full of fierceness and rage, he bounds the plain with such swiftness that he seems rather to swallow up the ground than to run upon it;

neither does he believe that [it is] the sound of the trumpet ;

for joy at hearing it; or he will not trust to his ears, but will see with his eyes whether the battle is ready, and therefore pushes forward. Mr. Broughton and others read it, "he will not stand still at the noise of the trumpet"; and the word signifies firm and stable, as well as to believe; when he hears the trumpet sound, the alarm of war, as a preparation for the battle, he knows not how to ^F1 stand; there is scarce any holding him in, but he rushes into the battle at once, (Jeremiah 8:6) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F1: "Stare loco nescit". Virgil. Georgic. l. 3. v. 84. "Ut fremit acer equus" Ovid. Metamorph. l. 3. Fab. 10. v. 704.