She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
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Gill's Exposition
She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers,.... Hence said to be cruel, Lam 4:3; not against the young ones she hatches, for Aelianus (c) reports her as very tender of her…
Barnes' Notes
She is hardened against her young ones - The obvious meaning of this passage, which is a fair translation of the Hebrew, is, that the ostrich is destitute of natural affection for her young; or that…
Adam Clarke
She is hardened against her young - See before, and the extracts from Dr. Shaw at the end of the chapter, Job 39:30 (note). She neglects her little ones, which are often found half starved,…
The ostrich is a wonderful animal, a very large bird, but it never flies. Some have called it a winged camel. God here gives an account of it, and observes,
I. Something that it has in common with the…
Cambridge Bible
she is hardened against Or, she treateth hardly.
her young ones The words refer here to her eggs, from which the young come forth, not to the young brood as the second clause explains.
in vain without…
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