Job 39:16
She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
15She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.
17For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.
Cross References
1 Kings 3:26Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”
Ecclesiastes 10:15The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
Lamentations 4:3Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
Romans 1:31They are senseless, faithless, heartless, unforgiving, merciless.
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 →