Job 39:13

Joyfully flapping are the wings of the ostrich, 1 but are her wings and feathers like the khasidah (stork)? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

In Context

12Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring in thy zera (grain), 1 and gather it into thy goren (threshing floor)? 1

14For the ostrich layeth her betzim (eggs) la'aretz (on the ground), 1 and warmeth them in the sand, 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 10:22For HaMelech had at sea a fleet of oniyyot Tarshish with the fleet of oniyyot of Chiram; once in shalosh shanim came the fleet of oniyyot Tarshish, bringing zahav, and kesef, ivory, and monkeys, and peacocks.

Job 30:29I am an ach to jackals, 1 and a re'a to owls. 1

Jeremiah 8:7Yea, the stork in the Shomayim knoweth her mo'adim (appointed times); 1 and the turtledove and the swift and the crane 1 are shomer over their time for migration; 1 but Ami (My People) have no da'as (knowledge) 1 of the Mishpat Hashem (rule, ordinance, regulation, law of Hashem ). 1

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 →

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