Job 39:14 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁴ For she leaves her 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 wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the pinions and plumage of love?

Job 39:15

forgetting that a foot may crush them, and that the wild beast may trample them.

Proverbs 27:8

Like a bird that strays from its nest, is a man who strays from his home.

Isaiah 44:15

Then it becomes fuel for a man; he takes a part of it and warms himself, he kindles a fire and bakes bread; also he makes a god and worships it, he makes it a graven image and falls down before it.

Lamentations 4:3

Even the jackals give the breast and suckle their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.