Job 39:17
For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
In Context
16She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.
18Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 32:31And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiah’s heart.
Job 35:11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
Isaiah 57:17I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires 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 →