Job 39:16
It has hardened her young ones without her, || Her labor [is] in vain, without fear.
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In Context
15And she forgets that a foot may press it, || And a beast of the field treads it down.
Cross References
1 Kings 3:26And the woman whose son [is] the living one says to the king (for her bowels yearned over her son), indeed, she says, “O my lord, give the living child to her, and do not put him to death at all”; and this [one] says, “Let him be neither mine or yours—cut [him].”
Ecclesiastes 10:15The labor of the foolish wearies him, || In that he has not known to go to the city.
Lamentations 4:3Even dragons have drawn out the breast, || They have suckled their young ones, || The daughter of my people has become cruel, || Like the ostriches in a wilderness.
Romans 1:31unintelligent, faithless, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful;
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 →