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13 The wings[a] of the female ostrich flap[b]
are they[c] the pinions of the stork or[d] the falcon?
14 Indeed, it leaves its eggs to the earth,
and it lets them be warmed on the ground,
15 and it forgets that a foot might crush an egg,[e]
and a wild animal[f] might trample it.[g]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 39:13 Hebrew “wing”
  2. Job 39:13 Or “flaps”
  3. Job 39:13 Or “if,” or “or”
  4. Job 39:13 Hebrew “and”
  5. Job 39:15 Hebrew “it”; or a collective singular (“them”) referring to “eggs” in v. 14
  6. Job 39:15 Literally “an animal of the field”
  7. Job 39:15 Or a collective singular (“them”) referring to “eggs” in v. 14