forgetting that a foot may crush them and that a wild animal may trample them.
Job 39:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 It deals cruelly with its young, as if they were not its own; though its labor should be in vain, yet it has no fear; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: Her labour is in vain without fear; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labor is in vain because she has no sense of danger [for her unborn brood], American Standard Version (1901) She dealeth hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers: Though her labor be in vain, she is without fear; Common English Bible She treats her young harshly as if they were not hers, without worrying that her labor might be in vain; Catholic Public Domain Version She is hardened against her young, as if they were not hers; she has labored in vain, with no fear compelling her. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers. She hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her. |
forgetting that a foot may crush them and that a wild animal may trample them.
because God has made it forget wisdom and given it no share in understanding.
The toil of fools wears them out, for they do not even know the way to town.
Look, O Lord, and consider! To whom have you done this? Should women eat their offspring, the children they have borne? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Even the jackals offer the breast and nurse their young, but my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor only to feed the flames and nations weary themselves for nothing?