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Job 39:13
Job 39:13 is verse 13 of Job chapter 39, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.
Pinions are the outer parts of a bird’s wings, including the flight feathers.
King James Version
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
World English Bible
“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the feathers and plumage of love?
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Job 39:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible
11 Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?
12 Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
13 The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.
14 For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.
15 She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Kings 10:22For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
2 Chronicles 9:21For the king had the ships of Tarshish that went with Hiram’s servants, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
Job 30:29I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
Leviticus 11:19the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
Psalms 104:17where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
Jeremiah 8:7Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
Zechariah 5:9Then I lifted up my eyes and saw two women approaching, with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.