Job 39:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

She is harsh with her young, as if they were not hers; she is unconcerned about the uselessness of her labor.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 4:3 : 3 ג(Gimel) Even the jackals nurse their young at their breast, but my people are cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Be sure of this! The LORD of Heaven’s Armies has decreed: The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.
  • Rom 1:31 : 31 senseless, covenant-breakers, heartless, ruthless.
  • Deut 28:56-57 : 56 Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters, 57 and will secretly eat her afterbirth and her newborn children(since she has nothing else), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.
  • 1 Kgs 3:26-27 : 26 The real mother spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused. She said,“My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don’t kill him!” But the other woman said,“Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!” 27 The king responded,“Give the first woman the living child; don’t kill him. She is the mother.”
  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29 : 28 Then the king asked her,“What’s your problem?” She answered,“This woman said to me,‘Hand over your son; we’ll eat him today and then eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day,‘Hand over your son and we’ll eat him.’ But she hid her son!”
  • Eccl 10:15 : 15 The toil of a stupid fool wears him out, because he does not even know the way to the city.
  • Lam 2:20 : 20 ר(Resh)Jerusalem Speaks: Look, O LORD! Consider! Whom have you ever afflicted like this? Should women eat their offspring, their healthy infants? Should priest and prophet be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?

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    14For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and lets them be warmed on the soil.

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  • Job 39:17-18
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    17For God deprived her of wisdom, and did not impart understanding to her.

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    56Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,

    57and will secretly eat her afterbirth and her newborn children(since she has nothing else), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

  • Job 39:28-30
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    28It lives on a rock and spends the night there, on a rocky crag and a fortress.

    29From there it spots its prey, its eyes gaze intently from a distance.

    30And its young ones devour the blood, and where the dead carcasses are, there it is.”

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    3ג(Gimel) Even the jackals nurse their young at their breast, but my people are cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.

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  • Job 39:1-4
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    1“Are you acquainted with the way the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?

    2Do you count the months they must fulfill, and do you know the time they give birth?

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  • Hos 2:3-4
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    3Otherwise, I will strip her naked, and expose her like she was when she was born. I will turn her land into a wilderness and make her country a parched land, so that I might kill her with thirst.

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    2and say:“‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay among young lions; she reared her cubs.

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    18There was no one to lead her among all the children she bore; there was no one to take her by the hand among all the children she raised.

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  • Nah 2:10-11
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    10Destruction, devastation, and desolation! Hearts faint; knees tremble; every stomach churns, all their faces have turned pale!

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  • Jer 15:9
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    9The mother who had seven children will grow faint. All the breath will go out of her. Her pride and joy will be taken from her in the prime of their life. It will seem as if the sun had set while it was still day. She will suffer shame and humiliation. I will cause any of them who are still left alive to be killed in war by the onslaughts of their enemies,” says the LORD.

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    12Even if they raise their children, I will take away every last one of them. Woe to them! For I will turn away from them.

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    21He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well.

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    14Give them, O LORD– what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry, and breasts that cannot nurse!

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    20She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms.

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    20whose heart did not bless me as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep,

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    18Discipline your child, for there is hope, but do not set your heart on causing his death.

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