Job 39:16
She is tough towards her young, acting as if they didn't belong to her. She doesn't care that all her work was for nothing.
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15She doesn't think that they can be crushed underfoot, trampled by a wild animal.
17For I, God, made her forget wisdom—she didn't get her share of intelligence.
Cross References
1 Kings 3:26But the woman whose son was alive had so much love for him as a mother that she cried out to the king, “Please, Your Majesty, give her the boy! Don't kill him!” But the other woman said, “He won't be mine or yours—cut him in two!”
Ecclesiastes 10:15Work makes fools so worn out they can't achieve anything.
Lamentations 4:3Even jackals nurse their young at their breasts, but the women of my people have become cruel, like an ostrich in the desert.
Romans 1:31They don't want to understand, they don't keep their promises, they don't show any kindness or compassion.
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 →