Job 39:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ “The ostrich’s wings flap wildly, though its pinions lack plumage.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? Or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, [but] are they the pinions and plumage of love?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; But are they the pinions and plumage of love?

Common English Bible

¹³ The ostrich’s wings flap joyously, but her wings and plumage are like a stork.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.

Job 39:13 Cross References

Zechariah 5:9

Then I looked up and saw two women coming forward. The wind was in their wings; they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and sky.

Jeremiah 8:7

Even the stork in the heavens knows its times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane observe the time of their coming, but my people do not know the ordinance of the Lord.

Psalm 104:17

In them the birds build their nests; the stork has its home in the fir trees.

Job 30:29

I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.

2 Chronicles 9:21

For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

1 Kings 10:22

For the king had a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet of ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

Leviticus 11:19

the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.

Leviticus 11:16

the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind;

Job 39:12

Do you have faith in it that it will return and bring your grain to your threshing floor?

Job 39:14

For it leaves its eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground,