Job 39:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

Job 39:14 —

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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. 14)

14-15. Yet (unlike the stork) she “leaveth,” &c. Hence called by the Arabs “the impious bird.” However, the fact is, she lays her eggs with great care and hatches them, as other birds do; but in hot countries the eggs do not need so constant incubation; she therefore often leaves them and sometimes forgets the place on her return. Moreover, the outer eggs, intended for food, she feeds to her young…