Job 39:16

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She treats her young harshly, as if they were not hers; her labor is in vain because she has no fear.

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  • Lam 4:3 : 3 Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young; but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Is it not from the LORD of Hosts that peoples labor for fire and nations grow weary for nothing?
  • Rom 1:31 : 31 they are senseless, faithless, unloving, unforgiving, and unmerciful.
  • Deut 28:56-57 : 56 The most tender and delicate woman among you, so refined that she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she loves, her son, and her daughter. 57 She will secretly eat her afterbirth and the children she bears during the siege and suffering that your enemy inflicts upon your cities, because she is in dire need of food.
  • 1 Kgs 3:26-27 : 26 The woman whose son was alive was deeply moved out of love for her son and said to the king, 'Please, my lord, give her the living child! Do not kill him!' But the other said, 'Neither I nor you shall have him. Cut him in two!' 27 Then the king gave his ruling: 'Give the living child to the first woman. Do not kill him; she is his mother.'
  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29 : 28 Then the king asked her, "What is your problem?" She replied, "This woman said to me, 'Give me your son so we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.' 29 So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day, I said to her, 'Give me your son so we may eat him,' but she had hidden her son."
  • Eccl 10:15 : 15 The work of fools wearies them because they do not even know how to go to the city.
  • Lam 2:20 : 20 Look, LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their own children, the little ones they have cherished? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

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    14 She leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the dust.

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    17 For God has deprived her of wisdom and has not given her understanding.

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    28 It dwells and lodges on the rocky crag, on the sharp point of the cliff and its stronghold.

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

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    1 Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Can you observe the labor of the deer?

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    3 Say to your brothers, 'My people,' and to your sisters, 'She has received mercy.'

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    2 Say, 'What was your mother? A lioness among lions! She lay down among the young lions and raised her cubs.'

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    6 I will not show mercy to her children, for they are the children of unfaithfulness.