Job 39:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Job 39:13 Cross References

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.

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.

Job 30:29

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

Job 39:12

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

Job 39:14

For she leaves her eggs to the earth, and lets them be warmed on the ground,

Psalm 104:17

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

Jeremiah 8:7

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

Leviticus 11:16

the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk according to its kind,

Leviticus 11:19

the stork, the heron according to its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.

Zechariah 5:9

Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming forward! The wind was in their wings; they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah between earth and heaven.