Job 39:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

Job 39:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 8:7
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Zechariah 5:9
Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.
1 Kings 10:22
For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
Psalms 104:17
Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
Job 30:29
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Birds God Guidance Lord Majesty Ostriches

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-18)

The ostrich is a wonderful animal, a very large bird, but it never flies. Some have called it a winged camel. God here gives an account of it, and observes, I. Something that it has in common with the peacock, that is, beautiful feathers Job 39:13): Gavest thou proud wings unto the peacocks? so some read it. Fine feathers make proud birds. The peacock is an emblem of pride; when he struts, and sho…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. Rather, “the wing of the ostrich hen”--literally, “the crying bird”; as the Arab name for it means “song”; referring to its night cries (Job 30:29; Mi 1:8) vibrating joyously. “Is it not like the quill and feathers of the pious bird” (the stork)? [Umbreit]. The vibrating, quivering wing, serving for sail and oar at once, is characteristic of the ostrich in full course. Its white and black feat…