Job 39:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear; ”

• Job 39:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  She is hardened against her young ones - The obvious meaning of this passage, which is a fair translation of the Hebrew, is, that the ostrich is destitute of natural affection for her young; or t...

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• Job 39:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  She is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers: her labour is (i) in vain without fear; (i) If he should take care of them.

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• Job 39:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear; She is hardened against her young - See before, and the extracts from Dr. Shaw at the end o...

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• Job 39:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Goodly wings unto the peacocks— Bochart seems to have proved, beyond all dispute, that the word rendered peacocks signifies ostriches; and the following description entirely agrees with that op...

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• Job 39:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear; On a slight noise often she forsakes her eggs, and returns not, as if she were 'harden...

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• Job 39:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The First Speech of the Almighty (concluded) Chs. Job 38:39-41 and Job 38:39 depict the wonders of animate creation, and the instincts with which animals are gifted by the providence of God. I...

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• Job 39:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXVIII. THE RECONCILIATION Job 38:1 - Job 42:6 THE main argument of the address ascribed to the Almighty is contained in Chapter s 38 and 39 and in the opening verses of chapter 42. Job make...

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• Job 39:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Knowest Thou?” “Canst Thou?” Job 39:1-30 The series of questions is continued, and God asks more especially with respect to animated and organic nature. The wild goats, Job 39:1-4 ; the wild...

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• Job 39:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  And still the unveiling goes forward: the mystery of the begetting and birth of lower animals, with the sorrows of travail, and the finding of strength; the freedom and wildness and splendid untameab...

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• Job 39:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (12) Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? (13) В¶ Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? (14) Which l...

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• Job 39:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  She is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers ,.... Hence said to be cruel, Lamentations 4:3 ; not against the young ones she hatches, for Aelianus c reports her as very te...

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• Job 39:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  She is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers: her labour is in vain without fear; Ver. 16. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers ] Heb. her...

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• Job 39:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  She is hardened against her young ones “A very little share of that στοργη, or natural affection, which so strongly exerts itself in most other creatures, is observable in the ostrich: for upon the...

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• Job 39:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE WILD GOATS AND THE DEER (vv.1-4) The Lord now turns Job's attention to animals not in the least aggressive, the wild goats and the deer. Indeed, rather than aggressive, they are elusive. Did...

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• Job 39:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Description of the Peacock and Ostrich. B. C. 1520.       13 Gavest thou the goodly wings...

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• Job 39:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  She is hardened; or, he , i.e. God, hardens her ; or, she hardeneth herself. Against her young ones , i.e. against her eggs, which he calls her young ones emphatically, to aggravate her fault...

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• Job 39:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  Notes Job 39:13 . “ Gatest thou the goodly wings unto the peacock, or wings and feathers into the ostrich? ” (MARGIN: “The feathers of the stork and ostrich.”) The whole verse very variously rend...

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• Job 39:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 39:1 . The wild goat, on the Arabian rocks, leaps with incredible celerity from rock to rock, and leaves the dogs and wolves behind. She hides her young in those retreats. They follow the laws...

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• Job 39:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 39:1-18 This chapter completes the survey of animate nature begun at Job 38:39 . The habits and instincts of the wild goat, the wild ass, and wild cattle are first noticed (...

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• Job 39:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 1. Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth, their homes being on the rocks near the summits of the mountains? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve, noting the t...

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• Job 39:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 3:26 ; 1 Kings 3:27 ; 2 Kings 6:28 ; 2 Kings 6:29 ; Deuteronomy 28:56 ; Deuteronomy 28:57 ; Ecclesiastes 10:15 ; Habakkuk 2:13 ; Lamentations 2:20 ; Lamentations 4:3 ; Romans 1:31...

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• Job 39:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Her labour — In laying her eggs is in vain, because she hath not the fear and tender concern for them, which she should have.

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