Job 39:13
The ostrich proudly flaps her wings, but they are nothing like the flight feathers of the stork.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
In Context
12Are you sure it will gather your grain and bring it to your threshing floor?
14The ostrich abandons her eggs on the ground, leaving them to be warmed in the dust.
Cross References
1 Kings 10:22The king had a fleet of ships from Tarshish crewed by Hiram's sailors. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive with a cargo of gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
Job 30:29I am like a brother to the jackals, a companion to owls.
Jeremiah 8:7Even storks high in the sky know when it's time to migrate. Turtledoves, swifts, and songbirds know when to fly away at the right time of the year. But my people don't know the laws of the 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 →