King James Version:
(The Lord speaking is red text)
She is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
Complete Jewish Bible:
It treats its chicks heartlessly, as if they were not its own; even if her labor is in vain, it really doesn't care;
Berean Standard Bible:
She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.
American Standard Version:
She dealeth hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers: Though her labor be in vain, she is without fear;
KJV with Strong’s Numbers:
She is hardened{H7188} against her young ones{H1121}, as though they were not{H3808} hers: her labour{H3018} is in vain{H7385} without fear{H6343};
Cross-References (KJV):
Lamentations 4:3
- Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people [is become] cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Romans 1:31
- Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Ecclesiastes 10:15
- The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
Deuteronomy 28:56
- The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
Deuteronomy 28:57
- And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all [things] secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
Habakkuk 2:13
- Behold, [is it] not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
1 Kings 3:26
- Then spake the woman whose the living child [was] unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, [but] divide [it].
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Commentary for Job 39:16
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Strong's Numbers and Definitions:
Note: H = Hebrew (OT), G = Greek (NT)
- Strong's Number: H7188
There are 2 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: קָשַׁח
Transliteration: qâshach
Pronunciation: kaw-shakh'
Description: a primitive root; to be (causatively, make) unfeeling; harden. - Strong's Number: H1121
There are 3654 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: בֵּן
Transliteration: bên
Pronunciation: bane
Description: from בָּנָה; a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.); [phrase] afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-) ite, (anoint-) ed one, appointed to, ([phrase]) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-) ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, [phrase] (young) bullock, [phrase] (young) calf, [idiom] came up in, child, colt, [idiom] common, [idiom] corn, daughter, [idiom] of first, [phrase] firstborn, foal, [phrase] very fruitful, [phrase] postage, [idiom] in, [phrase] kid, [phrase] lamb, ([phrase]) man, meet, [phrase] mighty, [phrase] nephew, old, ([phrase]) people, [phrase] rebel, [phrase] robber, [idiom] servant born, [idiom] soldier, son, [phrase] spark, [phrase] steward, [phrase] stranger, [idiom] surely, them of, [phrase] tumultuous one, [phrase] valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth. - Strong's Number: H3808
There are 73 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: לֹא
Transliteration: lôʼ
Pronunciation: lo
Description: or לוֹא; or לֹה; (Deuteronomy 3:11), a primitive particle; not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles; [idiom] before, [phrase] or else, ere, [phrase] except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), ([idiom] as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of, [phrase] surely, [phrase] as truly as, [phrase] of a truth, [phrase] verily, for want, [phrase] whether, without. - Strong's Number: H3018
There are 16 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: יְגִיעַ
Transliteration: yᵉgîyaʻ
Pronunciation: yeg-ee'-ah
Description: from יָגַע; toil; hence, a work, produce, property (as the result of labor); labour, work. - Strong's Number: H7385
There are 12 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: רִיק
Transliteration: rîyq
Pronunciation: reek
Description: from רוּק; emptiness; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain; empty, to no purpose, (in) vain (thing), vanity. - Strong's Number: H6343
There are 48 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: פַּחַד
Transliteration: pachad
Pronunciation: pakh'-ad
Description: from פָּחַד; a (sudden) alarm (properly, the object feared, by implication, the feeling); dread(-ful), fear, (thing) great (fear, -ly feared), terror.