Job 39:13

The wing of the ostrich moveth joyfully: hath she the pinions and plumage of the careful stork?

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

In Context

12Wilt thou confide in him, that he should bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor?—

14[No,] for she intrusteth her eggs to the earth, and letteth them be hatched out on the dust:

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Cross References

1 Kings 10:22For the king had a Tharshish-ship at sea with the ship of Hiram: once in three years the Tharshish-ship used to come home, laden with gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

Job 30:29I am a brother to [howling] monsters, and a companion to ostriches.

Jeremiah 8:7Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle, and the swallow, atad the crane observe the time of their coming home; 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 →

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