 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
 | David Strong - 1995 - 268 pages
...accurate to say that this is a world without center where things are as they are without reason: 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 not hers: her labor is vain without fear.13... | |
 | Gregory McNamee - 1996 - 196 pages
...ostrich was also long thought to be a less than doting parent. In the Book of Job, we read of the female, "which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth...foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them"—a reasonable enough supposition inasmuch as the ostrich does in fact nest on the ground. All... | |
 | Ethelbert W. Bullinger - 1996 - 300 pages
...After * See Job xxxix. 14, 15, where it is said, the ostrich "leaveth her eggs in the dust, forgetting that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them." A NO ft. Mirfnft ) * ' XVII.PERSEUSf the Breaker the expiration of this time its brightness begins... | |
 | Donald Capps - 1997 - 260 pages
...purposive teleology in nature. The ostrich "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 is hardened against her young ones as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain without fear;... | |
 | Dagobert D. Runes - 2001 - 308 pages
...to him? Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings...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 is... | |
 | Donald Capps - 2001 - 370 pages
...extraneous to the text. The "Poem of the Ostrich" describes how the ostrich jeopardizes her eggs: Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks! or wings...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 is... | |
 | Howard Riell - 2002 - 561 pages
...them. "Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather [it into] thy barn? [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] not hers: her labour is in vain without... | |
 | Thomas St Nicholas - 2002 - 552 pages
...the goodly wings vnto the peacocks, or wings and feathers vnto the Ostrich? Which leaueth her egges in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wilde beast may breake them' (Job 39.13-15). 9 fanatic] 'Fanatics' were religious nonconformists, but... | |
 | Jennifer Michael Hecht - 2010 - 578 pages
...beyond the understanding of human beings. She "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 is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain without... | |
 | F. Cornelius Ogundele - 2004 - 158 pages
...supremacy of God, the peacock leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warrneth them in dust, And forgeteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain without... | |
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