Job 39:17
For God hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
In Context
18What time she lasheth herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 32:31However in [the matter of] the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all [that was] in his heart.
Job 35:11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens?
Isaiah 57:17For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him; I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on backslidingly in the way of his heart.
Matthew Henry on Job 39:14-19
Description of the Peacock and Ostrich. ( b. c. 1520.) 13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? 14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, 15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. 16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear; 17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding. 18 What time she… Read the whole commentary →