Job 39:13
New International Version
“The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, though they cannot compare with the wings and feathers of the stork.

New Living Translation
“The ostrich flaps her wings grandly, but they are no match for the feathers of the stork.

English Standard Version
“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love?

Berean Standard Bible
The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.

King James Bible
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

New King James Version
“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, But are her wings and pinions like the kindly stork’s?

New American Standard Bible
“The wings of the ostrich flap joyously, With the pinion and feathers of love,

NASB 1995
“The ostriches’ wings flap joyously With the pinion and plumage of love,

NASB 1977
“The ostriches’ wings flap joyously With the pinion and plumage of love,

Legacy Standard Bible
“The ostriches’ wings flap joyously But are they the pinion and plumage of a stork?

Amplified Bible
“The [flightless] wings of the ostrich wave joyously; With the pinion (shackles, fetters) and plumage of love,

Christian Standard Bible
The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but are her feathers and plumage like the stork’s?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but are her feathers and plumage like the stork’s?

American Standard Version
The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; But are they the pinions and plumage of love?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The glorious wings of the peacock are made great, and she comes and makes a nest

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The peacock has a beautiful wing: if the stork and the ostrich conceive, it is worthy of notice,

Contemporary English Version
An ostrich proudly flaps her wings, but not because she loves her young.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.

English Revised Version
The wing of the ostrich rejoiceth, but are her pinions and feathers kindly?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Does the ostrich flap its wings in joy, or do its wings lack feathers?

Good News Translation
How fast the wings of an ostrich beat! But no ostrich can fly like a stork.

International Standard Version
"The wings of the ostrich flap joyously, but aren't its pinions and feathers like the stork?

JPS Tanakh 1917
The wing of the ostrich beateth joyously; But are her pinions and feathers the kindly stork's?

Literal Standard Version
[The] wing of the crying ostriches exults, but as a pinion and feather of a stork?

Majority Standard Bible
The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.

New American Bible
The wings of the ostrich flap away; her plumage is lacking in feathers.

NET Bible
"The wings of the ostrich flap with joy, but are they the pinions and plumage of a stork?

New Revised Standard Version
“The ostrich’s wings flap wildly, though its pinions lack plumage.

New Heart English Bible
"The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

Webster's Bible Translation
Gavest thou the goodly wings to the peacocks? or wings and feathers to the ostrich!

World English Bible
“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

Young's Literal Translation
The wing of the rattling ones exulteth, Whether the pinion of the ostrich or hawk.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
God Speaks of His Creation
12Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor? 13The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork. 14For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.…

Cross References
Leviticus 11:16
the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

Job 39:12
Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?

Job 39:14
For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.


Treasury of Scripture

Gave you the goodly wings to the peacocks? or wings and feathers to the ostrich?

peacocks

1 Kings 10:22
For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

2 Chronicles 9:21
For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

wings and feathers unto the.

Job 30:29
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

Leviticus 11:19
And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

Psalm 104:17
Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

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Job 39
1. Of the wild goats and hinds
5. Of the wild donkey
9. The unicorn
13. The peacock, stork, and ostrich
19. The horse
26. The hawk
27. The eagle














(13) Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks?--Rather, The wing of the ostrich is superb, but are her pinions and her feathers like the stork's? Ostrich feathers are said to be worth from 8 to 15 a pound; but, beautiful and valuable as they are, they are hardly like the plumage of a bird, and are not so used for flight; on the contrary, the ostrich runs like a quadruped, it is stated at the rate sometimes of fifty or sixty miles an hour.

Verse 13. - Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? rather, the wing of the ostrich (literally, of ostriches) is exultant; i.e. a thing that it glories in. The allusion is, perhaps, to the flapping of its wings by the ostrich, as it hurries over the ground, which is sore, thing like that of a cock before crowing or after beating an antagonist. Or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? This clause is very obscure, but may perhaps mean, Are her feathers and plumage kindly? (see the Revised Version); i.e. does she use them for the same kindly purpose as other birds - to warm her eggs, and forward the process of hatching them?

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The wings
כְּנַף־ (kə·nap̄-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 3671: An edge, extremity, a wing, a flap, a quarter, a pinnacle

of the ostrich
רְנָנִ֥ים (rə·nā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 7443: (bird of) piercing cries (ostrich)

flap joyfully,
נֶעֱלָ֑סָה (ne·‘ĕ·lā·sāh)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 5965: To leap for, joy, exult, wave joyously

but cannot [match]
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

the pinions
אֶ֝בְרָ֗ה (’eḇ·rāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 84: A pinion

and feathers
וְנֹצָֽה׃ (wə·nō·ṣāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5133: A pinion, plumage

of the stork.
חֲסִידָ֥ה (ḥă·sî·ḏāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2624: The kind, bird, a stork


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