Job 39:13

In 11 translations

BSB

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.Pinions are the outer parts of a bird’s wings, including the flight feathers.

KJV

Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?wings and…: or, the feathers of the stork and ostrich

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

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

YLT

The wing of the rattling ones exulteth, Whether the pinion of the ostrich or hawk.

DBY

The wing of the ostrich beats joyously — But is it the stork's pinion and plumage?

DRC

The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.

GNV39:16

Hast thou giuen the pleasant wings vnto the peacockes? or winges and feathers vnto the ostriche?

JPS

The wing of the ostrich beateth joyously; but are her pinions and feathers the kindly stork's?

LXXE

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

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WLC

כְּנַף־רְנָנִ֥ים נֶעֱלָ֑סָה אִם־אֶ֝בְרָ֗ה חֲסִידָ֥ה וְנֹצָֽה׃

LXX-Br

Πτέρυξ τερπομένων νεέλασσα, ἐὰν συλλάβῃ ἁσίδα καὶ νέσσα·

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• Zechariah 5:9Then 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 8:7Even 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.
• 2 Chronicles 9:21For 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.
• Psalms 104:17where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
• Leviticus 11:19the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
• 1 Kings 10:22For 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.
• Job 30:29I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

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