New Revised Standard Version
It deals cruelly with its young, as if they were not its own; though its labor should be in vain, yet it has no fear;

Contemporary English Version
She treats her eggs as though they were not her own, unconcerned that her work might be for nothing.

New American Bible
She cruelly disowns her young and her labor is useless; she has no fear.

Douay-Rheims Bible
She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her.

She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her.

hardened

Lamentations 4:3 Ghimel. Even the sea monsters have drawn out the breast, they have given suck to their young: the daughter of my people is cruel, like the ostrich in the desert.

as

Deuteronomy 28:56,57 The tender and delicate woman, that could not go upon the ground, nor set down her foot for over much niceness and tenderness, will envy her husband who lieth in her bosom, the flesh of her son, and of her daughter, . . .

1 Kings 3:26,27 But the woman, whose child was alive, said to the king; (for her bowels were moved upon her child) I beseech thee, my lord, give her the child alive, and do not kill it. But the other said: Let it be neither mine nor thine; but divide it. . . .

2 Kings 6:28,29 This woman said to me: Give thy son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. . . .

Lamentations 2:20 Res. Behold, O Lord, and consider whom thou hast thus dealt with: shall women then eat their own fruit, their children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Romans 1:31 Foolish, dissolute: without affection, without fidelity, without mercy.

her labour

Ecclesiastes 10:15 The labour of fools shall afflict them that know not how to go to the city.

Habakkuk 2:13 Are not these things from the Lord of hosts? for the people shall labour in a great fire: and the nations in vain, and they shall faint.