Job 39:13
The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.
BSB
ASV
The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; But are they the pinions and plumage of love?
KJV
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Jeremiah 8:7Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
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The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
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Psalms 104:17where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
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the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
The birds of the air nest beside the springs; they sing among the branches.
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1 Kings 10:22For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
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Jehoshaphat built ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
May the kings of Tarshish and distant shores bring tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.
They agreed to make ships to go to Tarshish, and these were built in Ezion-geber.
With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk. 11. Who can be ignorant how much the heron and the hawk surpass all other birds in the swiftness of their flight? But an ostrich has the likeness of their wing, but not the celerity of their flight. For it cannot in truth rise from the ground, and raises its wings, in appearance as if to fly, but yet never raises itself from the earth in flying.
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
"Is it not like the quill and feathers of the pious bird" (the stork)? [UMBREIT]. The vibrating, quivering wing, serving for sail and oar at once, is characteristic of the ostrich in full course. Its white and black feathers in the wing and tail are like the stork's.