Job 39:11-21

11 Will you rely on it for its great strength? Will you leave your heavy work to it?
12 Can you trust it to haul in your grain and bring it to your threshing floor?
13 “The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, though they cannot compare with the wings and feathers of the stork.
14 She lays her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand,
15 unmindful that a foot may crush them, that some wild animal may trample them.
16 She treats her young harshly, as if they were not hers; she cares not that her labor was in vain,
17 for God did not endow her with wisdom or give her a share of good sense.
18 Yet when she spreads her feathers to run, she laughs at horse and rider.
19 “Do you give the horse its strength or clothe its neck with a flowing mane?
20 Do you make it leap like a locust, striking terror with its proud snorting?
21 It paws fiercely, rejoicing in its strength, and charges into the fray.

Cross References 12

  • 1. ver 19; Job 40:16; Job 41:12,22; Psalms 147:10
  • 2. Zechariah 5:9
  • 3. 2 Kings 14:9
  • 4. ver 17; Lamentations 4:3
  • 5. S ver 16; S Job 21:22; Job 35:11
  • 6. S Job 5:22
  • 7. S ver 11
  • 8. Joel 2:4-5; Revelation 9:7
  • 9. Job 41:25
  • 10. Jeremiah 8:16
  • 11. ver 11
  • 12. Jeremiah 8:6
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