Job 39:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.”
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“She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;”
King James Version · Public Domain“She dealeth hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers: Though her labor be in vain, she is without fear;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Her young ones it hath hardened without her, In vain <FI>is<Fi> her labour without fear.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 39:16 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 28:56The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter
- 1 Kings 3:26Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”
- 2 Kings 6:28Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.’
- Ecclesiastes 10:15The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
- Lamentations 2:20Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Lamentations 4:3Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
- Habakkuk 2:13Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
- Romans 1:31They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.
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