Job 39:16

World English Bible (2000)

She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,

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  • Lam 4:3 : 3 Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
  • Rom 1:31 : 31 without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
  • Deut 28:56-57 : 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on 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 who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the 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 over her son, and she said, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it!" But the other said, "It shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide it." 27 Then the king answered, "Give her the living child, and in no way kill it. She is its mother."
  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29 : 28 The king said to her, "What ails you?" 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 ate 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 fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn't know how to go to the city.
  • Lam 2:20 : 20 Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Similar Verses (AI)

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    14For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,

    15and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.

  • Job 39:17-18
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    17because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

    18When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.

  • Deut 28:56-57
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    56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on 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 who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.

  • Job 39:28-30
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    28On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.

    29From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.

    30His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is."

  • Lam 4:3-4
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    3Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse 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 bread, and no man breaks it to them.

  • Job 39:1-4
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    1"Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

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

    3They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, they end their labor pains.

    4Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go forth, and don't return again.

  • Hos 2:3-4
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    3Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

    4Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;

  • Ezek 19:2-3
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    2and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.

    3She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

  • Isa 51:18-19
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    18There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth; neither is there any who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up.

    19These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?

  • Isa 49:15
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    15"Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

  • Nah 2:10-11
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    10She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

    11Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid?

  • Jer 15:9
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    9She who has borne seven languishes; she has given up the spirit; her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she has been disappointed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says Yahweh.

  • Hos 9:12
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    12Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!

  • Ezek 19:5
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    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
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    13The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; for when it is time, he doesn't come to the opening of the womb.

  • Job 31:18
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    18(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb);

  • Jer 14:5
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    5Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass.

  • Prov 30:16-17
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    16Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.'

    17"The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

  • Job 21:10
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    10Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.

  • Job 24:21
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    21He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

  • Hos 9:14
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    14Give them--Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

  • Prov 5:6
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    6She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.

  • Prov 7:11
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    11She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.

  • 1 Kgs 3:20
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    20She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

  • Job 31:20
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    20if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;

  • 1 Sam 2:5
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    5Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

  • Ezek 16:44
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    44Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

  • Nah 3:10
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    10Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

  • Lam 4:10
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    10The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Prov 19:18
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    18Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.

  • Jer 16:3
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    3For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became the father of them in this land:

  • Prov 31:17
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    17She arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.

  • Prov 2:17
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    17who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

  • Prov 31:27
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    27She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn't eat the bread of idleness.

  • Jer 50:12
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    12your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

  • Hos 2:6
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    6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.