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Job 39:30 King James Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Quoted partly by Jesus Christ (Mat 24:28). The food of young eagles is the blood of victims brought by the parent, when they are still too feeble to devour flesh.

slain--As the vulture chiefly feeds on carcasses, it is included probably in the eagle genus.

He had paused for a reply, but Job was silent.
 
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28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
18 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.