The ostrich forgets\par that someone might walk on her eggs\par or that some wild animal might break them.\par
Job 39:16 - Easy To Read Version An Ostrich leaves her little babies.\par She treats them like they are not hers.\par If her babies die, she doesn’t care\par that all her work was for nothing.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: Her labour is in vain without fear; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labor is in vain because she has no sense of danger [for her unborn brood], American Standard Version (1901) She dealeth hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers: Though her labor be in vain, she is without fear; Common English Bible She treats her young harshly as if they were not hers, without worrying that her labor might be in vain; Catholic Public Domain Version She is hardened against her young, as if they were not hers; she has labored in vain, with no fear compelling her. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers. She hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her. |
The ostrich forgets\par that someone might walk on her eggs\par or that some wild animal might break them.\par
Why? Because I (God) didn’t give wisdom to the ostrich.\par The ostrich is foolish,\par and I made her that way.\par
A foolish person isn’t smart enough\par to find his way home,\par so he must work hard all his life.\par
Look at me, Lord!\par See who it is\par that you have treated this way!\par Let me ask this question:\par Should women eat the children\par they have given birth to?\par Should women eat the children\par that they have cared for?\par Should priest and prophet\par be killed in the temple of the Lord?\par
Even a wild dog feeds her babies.\par Even the jackal lets her pups suck\par at her breast.\par But the daughter of my people {\cf2\super [27]} is cruel.\par She is like the ostrich\par that lives in the desert.\par
The Lord All-Powerful has decided that a fire will destroy everything that those people worked to build. All their work will be for nothing.
they are foolish, they don’t keep their promises, and they show no kindness or mercy to other people.