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Job 39:13

Job chapter 39 · verse 13 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; But are they the pinions and plumage of love?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; But are they the pinions and plumage of love?

Context

v.12Wilt thou confide in him, that he will bring home thy seed, And gatherthe grainof thy threshing-floor?

v.13This passage

v.14For she leaveth her eggs on the earth, And warmeth them in the dust,

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Zechariah 5:9

    Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there came forth two women, and the wind was in their wings; now they had wings like the wings of a stork; and they lifted up the ephah between earth and heaven.

  • Leviticus 11:19

    and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

  • Psalms 104:17

    Where the birds make their nests: As for the stork, the fir-trees are her house.

  • Job 30:29

    I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.

  • 1 Kings 10:22

    For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram: once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

  • Jeremiah 8:7

    Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law of Jehovah.