Job Chapter 39 verse 16 Holy Bible
She dealeth hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers: Though her labor be in vain, `she is' without fear;
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Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,
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She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern.
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She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: her labour is in vain without fear;
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Gavest thou the goodly wings to the peacocks? or wings and feathers to the ostrich!
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She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
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Her young ones it hath hardened without her, In vain `is' her labour without fear.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers. This is a deduction from what has preceded, and discloses no new fact. Recent careful observation of the habits of the ostrich indicates that the parental instinct is not wanting, though it may be weaker than in most birds. Both the male and the female incubate at night, and, when the nest is approached by the hunter, the parent bird or birds will leave it, and try to draw him away from it by running on in front of him, or feigning to attack him, much as peewits do in our own country. Her labour is in vain without fear; or, though her labour is in vain, she is without fear (see the Revised Version); i.e. though she is often disappointed of her immediate hope of offspring, through her eggs being crushed and destroyed, yet she grows no wiser, she does not fear for the future.
