Verse 16

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

Referenced Verses

• Lam 4:3 : 3 Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.
• Hab 2:13 : 13 See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?
• Rom 1:31 : 31 Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy:
• Deut 28:56-57 : 56 The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter; 57 And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.
• 1 Kgs 3:26-27 : 26 Then the mother of the living child came forward, for her heart went out to her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the child; do not on any account put it to death. But the other woman said, It will not be mine or yours; let it be cut in two. 27 Then the king made answer and said, Give her the child, and do not put it to death; she is the mother of it.
• 2 Kgs 6:28-29 : 28 And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she said in answer, This woman said to me, Give your son to be our food today, and we will have my son tomorrow. 29 So, boiling my son, we had a meal of him; and on the day after I said to her, Now give your son for our food; but she has put her son in a secret place.
• Eccl 10:15 : 15 The work of the foolish will be a weariness to him, because he has no knowledge of the way to the town.
• Lam 2:20 : 20 Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?