Job 39:13

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

“The wings of the ostrich flap with joy, but are they the pinions and plumage of a stork?

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 8:7 : 7 Even the stork knows when it is time to move on. The turtledove, swallow, and crane recognize the normal times for their migration. But my people pay no attention to what I, the LORD, require of them.
  • Zech 5:9 : 9 Then I looked again and saw two women going forth with the wind in their wings(they had wings like those of a stork) and they lifted up the basket between the earth and the sky.
  • Lev 11:19 : 19 the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
  • 1 Kgs 10:22 : 22 Along with Hiram’s fleet, the king had a fleet of large merchant ships that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet came into port with cargoes of gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
  • 2 Chr 9:21 : 21 The king had a fleet of large merchant ships manned by Huram’s men that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet came into port with cargoes of gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
  • Job 30:29 : 29 I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.
  • Ps 104:17 : 17 where the birds make nests, near the evergreens in which the herons live.

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  • Lev 11:16-19
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