Job 39:13 “The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions a…”

Job 39:13

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

World English Bible

“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

American Standard Version

The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; But are they the pinions and plumage of love?

Geneva Bible 1599

Canst thou binde the vnicorne with his band to labour in the furrowe? or will he plowe the valleyes after thee?

Darby Translation

The wing of the ostrich beats joyously — But is it the stork's pinion and plumage?

Young's Literal Translation

The wing of the rattling ones exulteth, Whether the pinion of the ostrich or hawk.

Bible in Basic English

Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,

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Cross references

“peacocks”

1 Kings 10:22 2 Chronicles 9:21

1 Kings 10:22 · BSB

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.

2 Chronicles 9:21 · BSB

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.

“wings and feathers unto the”

Jeremiah 8:7 Zechariah 5:9 Job 30:29 Leviticus 11:19 Psalm 104:17

Jeremiah 8:7 · BSB

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.

Zechariah 5:9 · BSB

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.

Job 30:29 · BSB

I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

Leviticus 11:19 · BSB

the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

Psalm 104:17 · BSB

where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?

14For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.

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