Job 39:13
The wing of the ostrich beateth joyously; but are her pinions and feathers the kindly stork's?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
In Context
12Wilt thou rely on him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather the corn of thy threshing-floor?
14For she leaveth her eggs on the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
Cross References
1 Kings 10:22For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram; once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
Job 30:29I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
Jeremiah 8:7Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but My people know not the ordinance 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 →