Job 39:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ For it leaves its eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground,

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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?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust.

Job 39:14 Cross References

Job 39:13

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

Job 39:15

forgetting that a foot may crush them and that a wild animal may trample them.

Proverbs 27:8

Like a bird that strays from its nest is one who strays from home.

Isaiah 44:15

Then it can be used as fuel. Part of it he takes and warms himself; he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Then he makes a god and worships it, makes it a carved image and bows down before it.

Lamentations 4:3

Even the jackals offer the breast and nurse their young, but my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.