Job 39:14 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁴ which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in dust,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ The ostrich leaves her eggs on the ground and warms them in the dust,

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁴ She leaves her eggs on the earth, lets them warm in the dust,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ When she leaves eggs behind in the earth, will you perhaps warm them in the dust?

Job 39:14 Cross References

Job 39:13

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

Job 39:15

and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.

Proverbs 27:8

As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

Isaiah 44:15

Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.

Lamentations 4:3

Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.