Job 39:16 “She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that…”

Job 39:16

She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;

World English Bible

She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,

American Standard Version

She dealeth hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers: Though her labor be in vain, she is without fear;

Geneva Bible 1599

Hast thou giuen the pleasant wings vnto the peacockes? or winges and feathers vnto the ostriche?

Darby Translation

She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern.

Young's Literal Translation

Her young ones it hath hardened without her, In vain [is] her labour without fear.

Bible in Basic English

She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.

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Cross references

“hardened”

Lamentations 4:3

Lamentations 4:3 · BSB

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

“as”

Lamentations 2:20 Romans 1:31 Deuteronomy 28:56 Deuteronomy 28:57 1 Kings 3:26 1 Kings 3:27

Lamentations 2:20 · BSB

Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Romans 1:31 · BSB

They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.

Deuteronomy 28:56 · BSB

The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter

Deuteronomy 28:57 · BSB

the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.

1 Kings 3:26 · BSB

Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neithe…

1 Kings 3:27 · BSB

Then the king gave his ruling: “Give the living baby to the first woman. By no means should you kill him; she is his mother.”

“her labour”

Ecclesiastes 10:15 Habakkuk 2:13

Ecclesiastes 10:15 · BSB

The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.

Habakkuk 2:13 · BSB

Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?

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

In context

15She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.

17For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.

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