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Job 39:13-15
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

13 The wings of the ostrich[a] flap away;
    her plumage is lacking in feathers.
14 When she abandons her eggs on the ground[b]
    and lets them warm in the sand,
15 She forgets that a foot may crush them,
    that the wild beasts may trample them;

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Footnotes

  1. 39:13 The wings of the ostrich cannot raise her from the ground, but they help her to run swiftly.
  2. 39:14–16 People thought that, because the ostrich laid her eggs on the sand, she was thereby cruelly abandoning them; cf. Lam 4:3.
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