Job 39:11-21

11 Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor?
12 Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
13 "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love?[a]
14 For she leaves her eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground,
15 forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them.
16 She 1deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her 2labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,
17 because God has made her forget wisdom and 3given her no share in understanding.
18 When she rouses herself to flee,[b] she laughs at the horse and his rider.
19 "Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane?
20 Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic 4snorting is terrifying.
21 He paws[c] in the valley and exults in his strength; he 5goes out to meet the weapons.

Cross References 5

  • 1. [Lamentations 4:3]
  • 2. Isaiah 49:4; Isaiah 65:23
  • 3. [Job 35:11]
  • 4. Jeremiah 8:16
  • 5. [Jeremiah 8:6]

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
  • [b]. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
  • [c]. Hebrew They paw
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