Job 39:17
For God hath caused her to forget wisdom, And He hath not given a portion To her in understanding:
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
In Context
16Her young ones it hath hardened without her, In vain [is] her labour without fear.
18At the time on high she lifteth herself up, She laugheth at the horse and at his rider.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 32:31and so with the ambassadors of the heads of Babylon, those sending unto him to inquire of the wonder that hath been in the land, God hath left him to try him, to know all in his heart,
Job 35:11Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'
Isaiah 57:17For the iniquity of his dishonest gain, I have been wroth, and I smite him, Hiding — and am wroth, And he goeth on turning back 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 →