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" 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 586
1885
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The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany

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...
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Rural discourses

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...
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Ezra to Malachi

1815 - 614 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...
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The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, Volume 10

1815 - 880 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...
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A revised translation and interpretation of the sacred Scriptures, after 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...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 5

1816 - 658 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...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 5; Volume 23

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1816 - 678 pages
...stork and the falcon for flight. Behold, she committeth her eggs to the earth.' Good. ' Geroestthou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich ?' CV This verse is co-ifessedly obscure in the original Hebrew, bat tut: whole paragraph appears to...
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The Holy Bible Containing the Old and the New Testament

1817 - 1082 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...
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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Volumes 1-2

1818 - 948 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...
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Illustrations of the holy Scriptures, Volume 2

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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