Job 39:17
For God has withholden wisdom from her, 1 And not given her a portion in understanding. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
In Context
18In her season she will lift herself on high; 1 She will scorn the horse and his rider. 1
Cross References
2 Chronicles 32:31Notwithstanding, in regard to the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who were sent to him to inquire of him concerning the prodigy which came upon the land, the Lord left him, to try him, to know what was in his heart.
Job 35:11Who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, 1 And from the birds of the sky? 1
Isaiah 57:17On account of sin for a little while I grieved him, and smote him, and turned away my face from him; and he was grieved, and he went on sorrowful in his ways.
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 →