Job 39:13
The peacock has a beautiful wing: if the stork and the ostrich conceive, it is worthy of notice,
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
In Context
12And will you believe that he will return to you your seed, and bring it in to your threshing floor?
14for the ostrich will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust,
Cross References
1 Kings 10:22For Solomon had a ship of Tharsis in the sea with the ships of Chiram: one ship came to the king every three years out of Tharsis, laden with gold and silver, and + 10:22 Gr. turned. wrought stones, and hewn stones. This was the arrangement of the + 10:22 This word more commonly means 'spoil' in the O.T. provision which king Solomon fetched to build the house of the Lord, and the house of the king, and the wall of Jerusalem, and the citadel; to fortify the city of David, and Assur, and Magdal, and Gazer, and Baethoron the upper, and Jethermath, and all the cities of the chariots, and all the cities of the horsemen, and the + 10:22 Gr. work. fortification of Solomon which he purposed to build in Jerusalem and in all the land, so that none of the people should rule over him that was left of the Chettite and the Amorite, and the Pherezite, and the Chananite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Gergesite, who were not of the children of Israel, their descendants who had been left with him in the land, whom the children of Israel could not utterly destroy; and Solomon + 10:22 Gr. reduced them to tribute. made them tributaries until this day. But of the children of Israel Solomon made nothing; for they were the warriors, and his servants and rulers, and captains of the third order, and the captains of his chariots, and his horsemen.
Job 30:29I am become a brother of monsters, and a companion of ostriches.
Jeremiah 8:7Yes, the stork in the heaven knows her time, also the turtle-dove and wild swallow; the sparrows observe the times of their coming in; but this my people knows not the judgments 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 →