 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? Or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened...  The Cottager's monthly visitor - Page 3011856Full view - About this book
 | Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar - 1846 - 640 lehte
...ostrich in the wilderness, " which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust ; and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may bieak them : She is hardened against her young ones as though they were not hers." Job xxxix. 14-16.... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1846 - 116 lehte
...only some of them take charge of their young ; it may be very truly said, as Job goes on to say, " she is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers." And yet those of the birds which do sit, and hatch the young ones, are as careful over them... | |
 | National Jewish Welfare Board, Jewish Publication Society of America - 1942 - 520 lehte
...the kindly stork's? 14 For she leaveth her eggs on the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, 15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them. Or that the wild beast may trample them. 16 She is hardened against her young ones, as if they were not hers; Though her labour... | |
 | 1884 - 1062 lehte
...and feathers unto the ostrich ? which leaveth her eggs in the earth, ami warmeth them in dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. . . . Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath He imparted to her imderstanding.' This... | |
 | Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh - 1891 - 600 lehte
...The female cuckoo shirks the brooding sacrifice usually associated with bird maternity. But though " she is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers," she is not "deprived of wisdom ;" by an elaborate and well-executed trick she foists her several... | |
 | 1890 - 1102 lehte
...peculiar instincts of incubation : ' She leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the...hardened against her young ones as though they were not hers ' ? This peculiarity of instinct on the part of the ostrich is likewise alluded to in the Book... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - 1978 - 644 lehte
...feathers unto the ostrich? 14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, 15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them. 19 Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? 20 Canst thou make... | |
 | Zondervan - 1984 - 940 lehte
...feathers unto the ostrich? 14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, 15 And nt. CHAPTER 57 THE RIGHTEOUS perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merc 16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 lehte
...derived from the observation in Job that she "leaveth her eggs in the sand, and warmeth them in dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them" (Job 39:14-15). But the ostrich also "raises its eyes to heaven" and waits for the rising of the Pleides... | |
 | David Strong - 1995 - 268 lehte
...wings and feathers unto the ostrich? which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the...hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is vain without fear.13 If this is a creation where intention is absent, it could not,... | |
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