Job 39:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

She is harsh toward her young, as if they were not hers; her labor is in vain, without fear;

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  • Lam 4:3 : 3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones; the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for mere vanity?
  • Rom 1:31 : 31 Undiscerning, untrustworthy, without natural affection, unmerciful:
  • Deut 28:56-57 : 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture 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 comes out from between her feet, and toward her children who she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and distress, with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.
  • 1 Kgs 3:26-27 : 26 Then the woman whose the living child was, spoke to the king, for her heart yearned for her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and do not kill it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor yours, but divide it. 27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and do not kill it: she is the mother thereof.
  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29 : 28 And the king said to her, What troubles you? And she answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. 29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said to her on the next day, Give your son, that we may eat him: and she has hidden her son.
  • Eccl 10:15 : 15 The labor of the foolish wearies every one of them, because he does not know how to go to the city.
  • Lam 2:20 : 20 Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom You have done this. Shall the women eat their offspring, the children of a span long? 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
    2 verses
    84%

    14It leaves its eggs on the ground, and warms them in the dust,

    15And forgets that a foot may crush them, or that a wild beast may break them.

  • Job 39:17-18
    2 verses
    82%

    17Because God has deprived her of wisdom, nor has He imparted to her understanding.

    18When she lifts herself on high, she laughs at the horse and its rider.

  • Deut 28:56-57
    2 verses
    78%

    56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture 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 comes out from between her feet, and toward her children who she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and distress, with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.

  • Job 39:28-30
    3 verses
    76%

    28It dwells on the rock and resides on the crag of the rock, in the stronghold.

    29From there it seeks its prey, and its eyes see afar off.

    30Its young ones also drink blood; and where the slain are, there it is.

  • Lam 4:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones; the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

    4The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask for bread, and no one breaks it for them.

  • Job 39:1-4
    4 verses
    73%

    1Do you know the time when the wild goats of the rock give birth? Or can you mark when the deer give birth?

    2Can you count the months they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?

    3They crouch down, they bring forth their young, they cast out their labor pains.

    4Their young ones grow strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth and do not return to them.

  • Hos 2:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

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

    4And I will not have mercy on her children; for they are the children of whoredoms.

  • Ezek 19:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2And say, What is your mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her cubs among young lions.

    3And she brought up one of her cubs; it became a young lion, and it learned to catch prey; it devoured men.

  • Isa 51:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18There is none to guide her among all the sons she has brought forth; neither is there any who takes her by the hand of all the sons she has raised.

    19These two things have come upon you; who shall feel sorry for you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort you?

  • Isa 49:15
    72%

    15Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget you.

  • Nah 2:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the knees strike together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather paleness.

    11Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's cub, and none made them afraid?

  • Jer 15:9
    71%

    9She that has borne seven languishes: she has given up the ghost; her sun has gone down while it was yet day: she has been ashamed and confounded: and the rest of them I will deliver to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD.

  • Hos 9:12
    71%

    12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left; yes, 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 cubs, and made him a young lion.

  • Hos 13:13
    71%

    13The sorrows of a laboring woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.

  • Job 31:18
    71%

    18(For from my youth he was raised with me as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

  • Jer 14:5
    70%

    5Even the deer gave birth in the field, and abandoned it, because there was no grass.

  • Prov 30:16-17
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    16The grave, and the barren womb, the earth that is never filled with water, and the fire that never says, It is enough.

    17The eye that mocks his father and despises 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 breeds and does not fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry.

  • Job 24:21
    70%

    21He does evil to the barren who does not bear, and shows no kindness to the widow.

  • Hos 9:14
    70%

    14Give them, O LORD: what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

  • Prov 5:6
    69%

    6Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, so that you cannot know them.

  • Prov 7:11
    69%

    11She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay at home:

  • 1 Kgs 3:20
    69%

    20And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid him 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 were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

  • 1 Sam 2:5
    69%

    5Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread; and those who were hungry have ceased to hunger: so that the barren has borne seven; and she who has many children has become feeble.

  • Ezek 16:44
    69%

    44Behold, everyone that uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

  • Nah 3:10
    69%

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

  • Lam 4:10
    69%

    10The hands of the compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Prov 19:18
    69%

    18Chasten your son while there is hope, and do not spare for his crying.

  • Jer 16:3
    69%

    3For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who begot them in this land:

  • Prov 31:17
    69%

    17She girds herself with strength and strengthens her arms.

  • Prov 2:17
    69%

    17Who forsakes the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

  • Prov 31:27
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    27She watches over the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

  • Jer 50:12
    68%

    12Your mother shall be greatly ashamed; she that bore you shall be confounded: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

  • Hos 2:6
    68%

    6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, so she shall not find her paths.