Bible verse
The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.
Job 39:13 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 39.
9 Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?
10 Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?
11 Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?
12 Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
13 The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.
14 For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.
15 She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.
16 She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.
17 For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.
KJV
[Gavest thou] the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
ASV
The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; But are they the pinions and plumage of love?
ERV
The wing of the ostrich rejoiceth, but are her pinions and feathers kindly?
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