Job 39:14
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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.

Lexicon
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

she leaves
תַעֲזֹ֣ב (ṯa·‘ă·zōḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5800: To loosen, relinquish, permit

her eggs
בֵּצֶ֑יהָ (bê·ṣe·hā)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1000: An egg

on the ground
לָאָ֣רֶץ (lā·’ā·reṣ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

and lets them warm
תְּחַמֵּֽם׃ (tə·ḥam·mêm)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2552: To be or become warm

in
וְֽעַל־ (wə·‘al-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the sand.
עָפָ֥ר (‘ā·p̄ār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6083: Dust, clay, earth, mud


Additional Translations
For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.Which leaves her eggs in the earth, and warms them in dust,

For she leaveth her eggs on the earth, And warmeth them in the dust,

for the ostrich will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust,

For she leaveth her eggs to the earth, and warmeth them in the dust,

For she leaveth her eggs on the earth, and warmeth them in the dust,

Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust,

For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,

For she leaveth on the earth her eggs, And on the dust she doth warm them,
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