Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.
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Gill's Exposition
Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper?.... Which is frightened at every noise, and at any approach of men; but not so the horse; or canst thou move him, or cause him to skip and jump, or rather…
Barnes' Notes
Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? - Or, rather, “as a locust” - כארבה kā'arbeh. This is the word which is commonly applied to the locust considered as gregarious, or as appearing in great…
God, having displayed his own power in those creatures that are strong and despise man, here shows it in one scarcely inferior to any of them in strength, and yet very tame and serviceable to man, and…
Cambridge Bible
The comparison of the horse to the locust is not uncommon, Joe 2:4; Rev 9:7. The picture of the horse is taken at the moment immediately preceding the onset, and thus his "bounding" and "snorting" are…