Job 39:13
11 Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?
12 Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.
14 For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.
15 She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.
- KJV
- Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
- WEB
- “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the feathers and plumage of love?
- ASV
- The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; [But] are they the pinions and plumage of love?
- DARBY
- The wing of the ostrich beats joyously But is it the stork's pinion and plumage?
- BLB
- The wings of the ostrich rejoice, but [are] not the pinions of a stork and its feathers.
- ÅB
- Strutsen flakser lystig med vingene; men viser dens vinger og fjær morskjærlighet?
- OTB
- «Strutsens vinger vifter gledelig,
Med vingefjær og fjær av hengivenhet, - B1930
- Strutsen flakser lystig med vingene; men viser dens vinger og fjær moderkjærlighet?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 8:7
Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
Read in contextZechariah 5:9
Then I lifted up my eyes and saw two women approaching, with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.
Read in context2 Chronicles 9:21
For the king had the ships of Tarshish that went with Hiram’s servants, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
Read in contextPsalms 104:17
where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
Read in contextLeviticus 11:19
the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
Read in contextJob 30:29
I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
Read in context1 Kings 10:22
For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
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