Job 39:14
Good News Translation
The ostrich leaves her eggs on the ground for the heat in the soil to warm them.

New Revised Standard Version
For it leaves its eggs to the earth, and lets them be warmed on the ground,

Contemporary English Version
She abandons her eggs and lets the dusty ground keep them warm.

New American Bible
When she abandons her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand,

Douay-Rheims Bible
When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust.

Context
God Speaks of His Creation
13The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk. 14When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust.15She forgetteth that the foot may tread upon them, or that the beasts of the field may break them.…
Cross References
Job 39:13
The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.

Job 39:15
She forgetteth that the foot may tread upon them, or that the beasts of the field may break them.

Isaiah 44:15
And it hath served men for fuel: he took thereof, and warmed himself: and he kindled it, and baked bread: but of the rest he made a god, and adored it: he made a graven thing, and bowed down before it.

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.

Job 39:13
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