Job 39:13
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Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.
In other translations
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Zechariah 5:9Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.Then I lifted up my eyes and saw two women approaching, with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.
- Jeremiah 8:7Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
- 1 Kings 10:22For 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.For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
- Leviticus 11:19And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
- Job 30:29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
- 2 Chronicles 9:21For 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.For the king had the ships of Tarshish that went with Hiram’s servants, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
- Psalm 104:17Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
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