Job 39:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

She is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;

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  • Lam 4:3 : 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.
  • Hab 2:13 : 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?
  • Rom 1:31 : 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
  • Deut 28:56-57 : 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, 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.
  • 1 Kgs 3:26-27 : 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]. 27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she [is] the mother thereof.
  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29 : 28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. 29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
  • Eccl 10:15 : 15 The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
  • Lam 2:20 : 20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

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    14Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

    15And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.

  • Job 39:17-18
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    82%

    17Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

    18What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

  • Deut 28:56-57
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    78%

    56The 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,

    57And 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.

  • Job 39:28-30
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    28She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.

    29From thence she seeketh the prey, [and] her eyes behold afar off.

    30Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain [are], there [is] she.

  • Lam 4:3-4
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    3Even 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.

    4The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, [and] no man breaketh [it] unto them.

  • Job 39:1-4
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    1¶ Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? [or] canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

    2Canst thou number the months [that] they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

    3They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.

    4Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.

  • Hos 2:3-4
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    3Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

    4And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they [be] the children of whoredoms.

  • Ezek 19:2-3
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    2And say, What [is] thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

    3And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

  • Isa 51:18-19
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    18[There is] none to guide her among all the sons [whom] she hath brought forth; neither [is there any] that taketh her by the hand of all the sons [that] she hath brought up.

    19These two [things] are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

  • Isa 49:15
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    15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

  • Nah 2:10-11
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    10She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain [is] in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

    11¶ Where [is] the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, [even] the old lion, walked, [and] the lion's whelp, and none made [them] afraid?

  • Jer 15:9
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    9She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while [it was] yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.

  • Hos 9:12
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    12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, [that there shall] not [be] a man [left]: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

  • Ezek 19:5
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    5Now when she saw that she had waited, [and] her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, [and] made him a young lion.

  • Hos 13:13
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    13The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he [is] an unwise son; for he should not stay long in [the place of] the breaking forth of children.

  • Job 31:18
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    18(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as [with] a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

  • Jer 14:5
    70%

    5Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook [it], because there was no grass.

  • Prov 30:16-17
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    16The grave; and the barren womb; the earth [that] is not filled with water; and the fire [that] saith not, [It is] enough.

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  • Job 21:10
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    10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

  • Job 24:21
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    21He evil entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

  • Hos 9:14
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    14Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

  • Prov 5:6
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    6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].

  • Prov 7:11
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    11(She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

  • 1 Kgs 3:20
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    20And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

  • Job 31:20
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    20If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

  • 1 Sam 2:5
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    5[They that were] full have hired out themselves for bread; and [they that were] hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

  • Ezek 16:44
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    44¶ Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use [this] proverb against thee, saying, As [is] the mother, [so is] her daughter.

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    10Yet [was] she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

  • Lam 4:10
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    10The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Prov 19:18
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    18¶ Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

  • Jer 16:3
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    3For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

  • Prov 31:17
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    17She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

  • Prov 2:17
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    17Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

  • Prov 31:27
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    27She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

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    12Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations [shall be] a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

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    6¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.