Job 39:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.”
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“The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?”
King James Version · Public Domain“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; But are they the pinions and plumage of love?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“The wing of the rattling ones exulteth, Whether the pinion of the ostrich or hawk.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 39:13 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 11:19the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
- 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.
- 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.
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