His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is.”
⛓ Read Job 39 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The Lord's speech on the eagle/vulture whose young suck up blood and that is wherever the slain are ('where the slain are, there is he') is the clearest source for 'where the body is, there the vultures gather.' The distinctive corpse-and-bird-of-prey proverb gives strong Volume and Coherence with the judgment scene.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'where the slain are, there is he' (the eagle/vulture over the carcass, Job 39:30) is a likely source for the proverb of the gathering vultures, an image of unmistakable, inevitable convergence.
Low confidence