Job 39:16

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

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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?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 39:14-15
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    14Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?

    15Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?

  • Job 39:17-18
    2 verses
    82%

    17That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,

    18Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?

  • Deut 28:56-57
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    78%

    56The 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;

    57And 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.

  • Job 39:28-30
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    76%

    28When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries.

    29Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?

    30Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?

  • Lam 4:3-4
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    3Even 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.

    4The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.

  • Job 39:1-4
    4 verses
    73%

    1Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,

    2When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?

    3Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

    4Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?

  • Hos 2:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.

    4And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.

  • Ezek 19:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.

    3And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.

  • Isa 51:18-19
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    18She has no one among all her children to be her guide; not one of the sons she has taken care of takes her by the hand.

    19These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?

  • Isa 49:15
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    15Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.

  • Nah 2:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.

    11Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.

  • Jer 15:9
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    9The mother of seven is without strength; her spirit is gone from her, her sun has gone down while it is still day: she has been shamed and overcome: and the rest of them I will give up to the sword before their haters, says the Lord.

  • Hos 9:12
    71%

    12Even though their children have come to growth I will take them away, so that not a man will be there; for their evil-doing will be complete and they will be put to shame because of it.

  • Ezek 19:5
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    5Now when she saw that her hope was made foolish and gone, she took another of her little ones and made him into a young lion.

  • Hos 13:13
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    13The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.

  • Job 31:18
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    18(For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)

  • Jer 14:5
    70%

    5And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.

  • Prov 30:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.

    17The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

  • Job 21:10
    70%

    10Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.

  • Job 24:21
    70%

    21He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.

  • Hos 9:14
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    14O Lord, what will you give them? Give them bodies which may not give birth and breasts without milk.

  • Prov 5:6
    69%

    6She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

  • Prov 7:11
    69%

    11She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.

  • 1 Kgs 3:20
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    20And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms.

  • Job 31:20
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    20If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;

  • 1 Sam 2:5
    69%

    5Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.

  • Ezek 16:44
    69%

    44See, in every common saying about you it will be said, As the mother is, so is her daughter.

  • Nah 3:10
    69%

    10But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.

  • Lam 4:10
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    10The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Prov 19:18
    69%

    18Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.

  • Jer 16:3
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    3For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:

  • Prov 31:17
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    17She puts a band of strength round her, and makes her arms strong.

  • Prov 2:17
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    17Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

  • Prov 31:27
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    27She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.

  • Jer 50:12
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    12Your mother will be put to shame; she who gave you birth will be looked down on: see, she will be the last of the nations, a waste place, a dry and unwatered land.

  • Hos 2:6
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    6For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.