Job 39:13

“ Think also about the ostriches. They joyfully flap their wings, but they do not have wing feathers that enable them to fly like storks do.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12Can you rely on it to come back from the field, bringing your grain to the place where you thresh it?

14Ostriches lay their eggs on top of the ground and then walk away, leaving the eggs to be warmed in the sand.

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Cross References

1 Kings 10:22The king had a ◄fleet/large number► of ships that sailed with the ships that King Hiram owned. Every three years the ships returned from the places to which they had sailed, bringing gold, silver, ivory, monkeys, and baboons (OR, peacocks).

Job 30:29My wailing sounds as sad as [MET] the cries of jackals/foxes and ostriches.

Jeremiah 8:7All the birds that fly south for the ◄winter/cold season► know the time that they need to fly south, and they all return at the right time the following year. But my people are not like those birds! They do not know what I, Yahweh, require them to do.

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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