Job 39:15

15 They do not know that something might step on them. A wild animal might walk all over them.

Job 39:15 Meaning and Commentary

Job 39:15

And forgetteth that the foot may crush them
The foot of the traveller, they being laid in the ground, where he may walk, or on the sand of the seashore, where he may tread and trample upon them unawares, and crush them to pieces; to prevent which this creature has no foresight;

or that the wild beast may break them;
supposing they may be, though not where men walk, yet where wild beasts frequent, they may be as easily broken by the one as the other; against which it guards not, having no instinct in nature, as some creatures have, to direct to the preservation of them.

Job 39:15 In-Context

13 "The wings of ostriches flap with joy. But they can't compare with the wings and feathers of storks.

14 Ostriches lay their eggs on the ground. They let them get warm in the sand.

15 They do not know that something might step on them. A wild animal might walk all over them.

16 Ostriches are mean to their little ones. They treat them as if they did not belong to them. They do not care that their work was useless.

17 I did not provide ostriches with wisdom. I did not give them good sense.