Job 39:13
Good News Translation
How fast the wings of an ostrich beat! But no ostrich can fly like a stork.

New Revised Standard Version
“The ostrich’s wings flap wildly, though its pinions lack plumage.

Contemporary English Version
An ostrich proudly flaps her wings, but not because she loves her young.

New American Bible
The wings of the ostrich flap away; her plumage is lacking in feathers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.

peacocks

1 Kings 10:22 For the king's navy, once in three years, went with the navy of Hiram by sea to Tharsis, and brought from thence gold, and silver, and elephants' teeth, and apes, and peacocks.

2 Chronicles 9:21 For the king's ships went to Tharsis with the servants of Hiram, once in three years: and they brought thence gold and silver, and ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

wings and feathers unto the.

Job 30:29 I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.

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Leviticus 11:19 The heron, and the charadroin according to its kind, the houp also, and the bat.

Psalm 104:17 There the sparrows shall make their nests. The highest of them is the house of the heron.

Jeremiah 8:7 The kite in the air hath known her time: the turtle, and the swallow, and the stork have observed the time of their coming: but my people have not known the judgment of the Lord.

Zechariah 5:9 And I lifted up my eyes and looked: and behold there came out two women, and wind was in their wings, and they had wings like the wings of a kite: and they lifted up the vessel between the earth and the heaven.

Context
God Speaks of His Creation
12Wilt thou trust him that he will render thee the seed, and gather it into thy barnfloor? 13The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.14When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust.…
Cross References
Leviticus 11:16
The ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind.

Job 39:12
Wilt thou trust him that he will render thee the seed, and gather it into thy barnfloor?

Job 39:14
When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust.

Job 39:12
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