Job 39:13
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 39 connects to 7 cross-references. God continues his interrogation with questions about wild animals: Who gave the wild donkey its freedom? Do Job's commands send the hawk soaring? The divine questions demonstrate that the wild, untamed creation operates according to wisdom entirely beyond human comprehension …
Other Translations
The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; But are they the pinions and plumage of love?
The wing of the rattling ones exulteth, Whether the pinion of the ostrich or hawk.
Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,
Cross References
For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came …
For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of …
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe …
Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in …
And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.