 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
 | Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1848 - 192 pages
...wilderness, the largest of all birds, " 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." " O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all ; the earth is full of thy... | |
 | Church of England - 1849 - 1394 pages
...him ? Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? Gavest make his instruments of war, and instruments of his...chiriots. And he will take your daughters ,'•' She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's : her labour is in vain without... | |
 | 1849 - 360 pages
...that he will bring home thy seed, And gather it into thy barn ? Gavcet thou the goodly wings unto She the peacocks ? Or wings and feathers unto 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... | |
 | Madame Guizot (Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline) - 1849 - 182 pages
...the egg. Mrs. Beaumont. Yes, that is what God himself teaches us in the book of Job. " Gavest thou wings and feathers unto 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 is... | |
 | A. O. J. Cockshut - 1966 - 276 pages
...living creatures - as well tell us that the highest image of parental love and forethought is that of the ostrich, 'which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust'. 1 But if such conclusions are not justified by our a priori knowledge of the Divine nature, are they... | |
 | 1890 - 1102 pages
...what can be more accurate than the description of this bird's peculiar instincts of incubation : ' She leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in...crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones as though they were not hers ' ? This peculiarity of instinct... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - 1978 - 644 pages
...thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? 39 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 the dust, 15 And forgetteth that the foot... | |
 | Zondervan - 1984 - 940 pages
...12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? 13 Gavest am, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee. 6 f And the 14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, 15 And forgetteth that the foot may... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof, (XXXVIII, 19) 16 Gavest he mountain And the salmon sing in the street. (1....Began to whirr and chime: "O let not Time deceive you (XXXIX, 13-14) 17 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider. Hast... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 pages
...attribute of man's lapse, derived from the observation in Job that she "leaveth her eggs in the sand, and warmeth them in dust, And forgetteth that the...crush them, or that the wild beast may break them" (Job 39:14-15). But the ostrich also "raises its eyes to heaven" and waits for the rising of the Pleides... | |
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