Job 39:17

because God has deprived her of wisdom 1 and has not given her any understanding. 1

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Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

In Context

16She deals roughly with her young ones as if they were not hers; 1 she does not fear that her labor might have been in vain, 1

18When she runs swiftly, 1 she laughs in scorn at the horse and its rider. 1

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:31However, in the matter of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to ask questions of those who knew, about the miraculous sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him, and to know all that was in his heart.

Job 35:11who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth, 1 and who makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?' 1

Isaiah 57:17Because of the sin of his violent gain, I was angry, and I punished him; I hid my face and was angry, 1 but he went backward in the way of his heart. 1

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 →

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