Job 39:16

A Conservative Version

She deals hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor be in vain, [she is] without fear,

Cross References

Lamentations 4:3

Even the jackals draw out the breast; they give suck to their young ones. The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Romans 1:31

without understanding, untrustworthy, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not of LORD of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

Lamentations 2:20

See, O LORD, and behold to whom thou have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the sons who are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of LORD?

Ecclesiastes 10:15

The labor of fools wearies every one of them, for he knows not how to go to the city.

Job 39:15

And she forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may trample them.

Job 39:17

because God has deprived her of wisdom, nor has he imparted understanding to her.