Job 39:17
Because God hath denied her wisdom, and he hath not imparted to her understanding.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
In Context
18At the time she raiseth herself up on high, she laugheth at the horse and his rider.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 32:31And in the same manner in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire concerning the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him, to prove him, to know all that was in his heart.
Job 35:11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of the heavens?
Isaiah 57:17Because of the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and I smote him, hiding my face, and was wroth: while he went on frowardly in the way of his own 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 →