SEV Biblia, Chapter 9:2
y vuestro temor y vuestro pavor será sobre todo animal de la tierra, y sobre toda ave de los cielos, en todo lo que se moverá en la tierra, y en todos los peces del mar; en vuestra mano son entregados.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 9:2
Verse 2. The fear of you and the dread, &c.] Prior to the fall, man ruled the inferior animals by love and kindness, for then gentleness and docility were their principal characteristics. After the fall, untractableness, with savage ferocity, prevailed among almost all orders of the brute creation; enmity to man seems particularly to prevail; and had not God in his mercy impressed their minds with the fear and terror of man, so that some submit to his will while others flee from his residence, the human race would long ere this have been totally destroyed by the beasts of the field. Did the horse know his own strength, and the weakness of the miserable wretch who unmercifully rides, drives, whips, goads, and oppresses him, would he not with one stroke of his hoof destroy his tyrant possessor? But while God hides these things from him he impresses his mind with the fear of his owner, so that either by cheerful or sullen submission he is trained up for, and employed in, the most useful and important purposes; and even willingly submits, when tortured for the sport and amusement of his more bruitish oppressor. Tigers, wolves, lions, and hyaenas, the determinate foes of man, incapable of being tamed or domesticated, flee, through the principle of terror, from the dwelling of man, and thus he is providentially safe. Hence, by fear and by dread man rules every beast of the earth, every fowl of the air, and every fish of the sea. How wise and gracious is this order of the Divine providence! and with what thankfulness should it be considered by every human being!
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-3 - The blessing of God is the cause of our doing well. On him we depend to him we should be thankful. Let us not forget the advantage an pleasure we have from the labour of beasts, and which their fles affords. Nor ought we to be less thankful for the security we enjo from the savage and hurtful beasts, through the fear of man which God has fixed deep in them. We see the fulfilment of this promise ever day, and on every side. This grant of the animals for food full warrants the use of them, but not the abuse of them by gluttony, stil less by cruelty. We ought not to pain them needlessly whilst they live nor when we take away their lives.
Original Hebrew
ומוראכם 4172 וחתכם 2844 יהיה 1961 על 5921 כל 3605 חית 2416 הארץ 776 ועל 5921 כל 3605 עוף 5775 השׁמים 8064 בכל 3605 אשׁר 834 תרמשׂ 7430 האדמה 127 ובכל 3605 דגי 1709 הים 3220 בידכם 3027 נתנו׃ 5414
