Job 39:21

It ¹  paws the ground in the valley, ²  exulting mightily, ³  it goes out to meet the weapons.

Jud 5:22; 1Sa 17:4-10,42; Ps 19:5; Pr 21:31; Jer 8:6; Jer 9:23

¹ tc The Hebrew text has a plural verb, “they paw.” For consistency and for stylistic reasons this is translated as a singular.

² tn The armies would prepare for battles that were usually fought in the valleys, and so the horse was ready to charge. But in Ugaritic the word `mk means “force” as well as “valley.” The idea of “force” would fit the parallelism here well (see M. Dahood, “Value of Ugaritic for textual criticism,” Bib 40 [1959]: 166).

³ tn Or “in strength.”