Job 39:15 BSB — MannaFest

Job 39:15

She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may trample them.

KJV

And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And forgetteth that the foot may crush them - She lays her eggs in the sand, and not, as most birds do, in nests made on branches of trees, or on the crags of rocks, where they would be inaccessible, as if she was forgetful of the fact that the wild beast might pass along and crush them. She often wanders away from them, also, and does not stay near them to guard them, as most parent birds do, as if she were unmindful of the danger to which they might be exposed when she was absent.

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Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

But how then are any young ones brought forth, and whence is it that the species has not perished? We must suppose either that God, by a special providence, with the heat of the sun and the sand (so some think), hatches the neglected eggs of the ostrich, as he feeds the neglected young ones of the raven, or that, though the ostrich often leaves her eggs thus, yet not always.

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַ֭תִּשְׁכַּח	Va.tish.kach	and it has forgotten	H7911 →
כִּי־	ki-	that	H3588 →
רֶ֣גֶל	Re.gel	a foot	H7272 →
תְּזוּרֶ֑הָ	te.zu.Re.ha	it will crush it	H2115 →
וְחַיַּ֖ת	ve.chai.Yat	and [the] animal of	H2416 →
הַשָּׂדֶ֣ה	ha.sa.Deh	the field	H7704 →
תְּדוּשֶֽׁהָ׃	te.du.She.ha	it will trample it	H1758 →

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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Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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