Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. The Popular Science Monthly - Page 5861885Full view - About this book
 | 1835 - 612 pages
...the coincidence is most striking between the written and the pictorial representation. » " Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks ? " Or wings...crush them, " Or that the wild beast may break them. " She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were " Her labour is in vain without fear... | |
 | William Clayton - 1814 - 420 pages
...despair of success, or presumption on God's mercy, led you to be indifferent about their welfare. Like the ostrich, " which leaveth her eggs in " the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, and " forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that " the wild beast may break them. She... | |
 | 1815 - 602 pages
...12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn ? 13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks ? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich ? 14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, 15 And forgetteth that the foot... | |
 | 1815 - 872 pages
...roving being broken off if We would read, ." the arm of deceit shall be broken." xxxix. 13. "Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks, or wings and feathers, unto the ostrirhr" Pub. Vers. — " the wing of the ostrich-tribe is for flapping, but of the stork and the... | |
 | 1815 - 872 pages
...feathers to the ostrich? 14. Which leaves her eggs to be hatched in the warm sandy earth, 15. And forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may tread on them. 16. She is hardened against her young, as tho* they were not hers; without fearing that... | |
 | 1816 - 656 pages
...of the stork and the falcon for flight. Behold, she committeth her eggs to the earth/ Good. ' Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks ? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich ?' C. F. This verse is confessedly obscure in the original Hebrew, but the whole paragraph appears... | |
 | 1817 - 1008 pages
...12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn ? 13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks ? or | • wings and feathers unto the ostrich? 14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, 15 And forgetteth that the foot may... | |
 | 1818 - 792 pages
...12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy bani? 13 Gavest aen, an 14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, 15 And forgetteth that the foot... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 578 pages
...addressed to Job, the wings and feathers of the ostrich are compared with those of the stork ; " Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks, or wings and feathers unto the ostrich ;" or as it is rendered by the learned Bochart, and after him by Dr Shaw : " the plumage of the stork."... | |
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