John Gill Commentary Job 39:27

"Is it at thy command that the eagle mounteth up, And maketh her nest on high?" — Job 39:27 (ASV)

Does the eagle mount up at your command
No; but by an instinct which God has placed in it, and a capacity he has given it above all other birds. They take a circuit in their flight, and bend about before they soar aloft: but the eagle steers its course directly upwards towards heaven, till out of sight; and, as Apuleius says ^F16 , up to the clouds, where it rains and snows, and beyond which there is no place for thunder and lightning;

and make her nest on high ?
so the philosopher says ^F17 ; eagles make their nests not in plains, but in high places, especially in cragged rocks, as in (Job 39:28) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F16: Florida 1.
• F17: Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 32.