 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
 | 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... | |
 | 1992 - 1110 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | 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;... | |
 | Lawrence Boadt - 1999 - 128 pages
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 | 1999 - 100 pages
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