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12 Can you rely on him to bring in your grain
    and gather in the yield of your threshing floor?
13 The wings of the ostrich[a] flap away;
    her plumage is lacking in feathers.
14 When she abandons her eggs on the ground[b]
    and lets them warm in the sand,

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Footnotes

  1. 39:13 The wings of the ostrich cannot raise her from the ground, but they help her to run swiftly.
  2. 39:14–16 People thought that, because the ostrich laid her eggs on the sand, she was thereby cruelly abandoning them; cf. Lam 4:3.