Job 39:16

American Standard Version (1901)

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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  • Lam 4:3 : 3 Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
  • Rom 1:31 : 31 without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful:
  • Deut 28:56-57 : 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57 and toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
  • 1 Kgs 3:26-27 : 26 Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor thine; divide it. 27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29 : 28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow. 29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him; and she hath hid her son.
  • Eccl 10:15 : 15 The labor of fools wearieth every one of them; for he knoweth not how to go to the city.
  • Lam 2:20 : 20 See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 39:14-15
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    84%

    14For she leaveth her eggs on the earth, And warmeth them in the dust,

    15And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may trample them.

  • Job 39:17-18
    2 verses
    82%

    17Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

    18What time she lifteth up herself on high, She scorneth the horse and his rider.

  • Deut 28:56-57
    2 verses
    78%

    56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

    57and toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

  • Job 39:28-30
    3 verses
    76%

    28On the cliff she dwelleth, and maketh her home, Upon the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.

    29From thence she spieth out the prey; Her eyes behold it afar off.

    30Her young ones also suck up blood: And where the slain are, there is she.

  • Lam 4:3-4
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    73%

    3Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

    4The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

  • Job 39:1-4
    4 verses
    73%

    1Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? [Or] canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

    2Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? Or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

    3They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, They cast out their pains.

    4Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field; They go forth, and return not again.

  • Hos 2:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

    4Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom;

  • Ezek 19:2-3
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    73%

    2and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.

    3And she brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

  • Isa 51:18-19
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    73%

    18There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand among all the sons that she hath brought up.

    19These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee?

  • Isa 49:15
    72%

    15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee.

  • Nah 2:10-11
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    72%

    10She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.

    11Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion [and] the lioness walked, the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?

  • Jer 15:9
    71%

    9She that hath borne seven languisheth; she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she hath been put to shame and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith Jehovah.

  • Hos 9:12
    71%

    12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, so that not a man shall be left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

  • Ezek 19:5
    71%

    5Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

  • Hos 13:13
    71%

    13The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for it is time he should not tarry in the place of the breaking forth of children.

  • Job 31:18
    71%

    18(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother's womb);

  • Jer 14:5
    70%

    5Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh [her young], because there is no grass.

  • Prov 30:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16Sheol; And the barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that saith not, Enough.

    17The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.

  • Job 21:10
    70%

    10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

  • Job 24:21
    70%

    21He devoureth the barren that beareth not, And doeth not good to the widow.

  • Hos 9:14
    70%

    14Give them, O Jehovah--what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

  • Prov 5:6
    69%

    6So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, [and] she knoweth [it] not.

  • Prov 7:11
    69%

    11(She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:

  • 1 Kgs 3:20
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    20And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

  • Job 31:20
    69%

    20If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

  • 1 Sam 2:5
    69%

    5They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; And they that were hungry have ceased [to hunger] : Yea, the barren hath borne seven; And she that hath many children languisheth. [

  • Ezek 16:44
    69%

    44Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use [this] proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

  • Nah 3:10
    69%

    10Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity; her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

  • Lam 4:10
    69%

    10The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Prov 19:18
    69%

    18Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; And set not thy heart on his destruction.

  • Jer 16:3
    69%

    3For thus saith Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land:

  • Prov 31:17
    69%

    17She girdeth her loins with strength, And maketh strong her arms.

  • Prov 2:17
    69%

    17That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

  • Prov 31:27
    69%

    27She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth not the bread of idleness.

  • Jer 50:12
    68%

    12your mother shall be utterly put to shame; she that bare you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the hindermost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

  • Hos 2:6
    68%

    6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.