Job 39:17
Because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
In Context
18What time she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 32:31Nevertheless in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
Job 35:11Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
Isaiah 57:17For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and stroke him: I hid me, and was angry, and he went on perversely in the way of his heart.
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 →