Job 39:13

Translations

Modern

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.

Traditional

Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

Literal

The wings of the ostrich rejoice, but are not the pinions of a stork and its feathers.

Latin

Penna struthionis similis est pennis herodii et accipitris.

Original

Hebrew

English

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.

Notes

Job 39:13–18

In the ancient Near East, people believed the ostrich was a bird that God had not given wisdom.

Job 38:1–40:5

God challenges Job. Job admits he cannot judge the moral world. God shows Job's ignorance of the natural world's elements related to the realm of heaven, weather, animals, and birds (38:4–21; 22–38; 39–39:30).

Theme notes and profiles

Complaints God’s Uniqueness

Events

Job's Trialc. 1650 BC

Related verses

Zechariah 5:9
Then 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.
Jeremiah 8:7
Even 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.
2 Chronicles 9:21
For 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.
Psalm 104:17
…where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
Job 30:29
I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
Leviticus 11:19
…the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
1 Kings 10:22
For 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.

Glossary

Book of Job Ostrich Power Proverbs, Book of Wisdom Literature

Topics

Birds: Habits of Birds: Unclean: Ostrich Birds: Unclean: Peacock God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Ostriches: General Scriptures Concerning Peacock: General Scriptures Concerning The Ostrich: Furnished with Wings and Feathers

Job 39:13

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