Job 39:13

The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, [but] are they the pinions and plumage of love?

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

In Context

12Will thou confide in him that he will bring home thy seed, and gather [the grain] of thy threshing-floor?

14For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and warms them in the dust.

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Cross References

1 Kings 10:22For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram. Once every three years the navy of Tarshish came, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

Job 30:29I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

Jeremiah 8:7Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times, and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the law of LORD.

Matthew Henry on Job 39:2-13

Man's Ignorance of the Animal Creation; Description of the Wild Goat, Hind, Wild Ass, and Unicorn. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? 2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? 3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows. 4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. 5… Read the whole commentary →

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