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Job 39:16 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear, "
Job 39:16
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14 For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,
15 and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.
16 She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
17 because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
18 When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.
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Job 39:1
"“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?"
Job 39:2
"Can you count the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?"
Job 39:3
"They bow themselves. They bear their young. They end their labor pains."
Job 39:4
"Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go out, and don’t return again."
Job 39:5
"“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,"
Job 39:6
"whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?"
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