John Gill Commentary Job 39:29

"From thence she spieth out the prey; Her eyes behold it afar off." — Job 39:29 (ASV)

From thence she seeketh the prey
From the high rock; from where 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 though they may lie in the most hidden and secret places. Therefore in the original text it is, "she diggeth the prey or food" ^F19 ; 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 ^F20 expresses it; and who observes that she is the most sharp sighted of all birds; and so, Homer ^F21 says, some affirm.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F19: (lka rpx) "fodit escam"; Montanus, Mercerus.
• F20: 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.)
• F21: Iliad. 17. v. 674, 675. so Diodor. Sic. l. 3. p. 145.