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14 Indeed, it leaves its eggs to the earth,
and it lets them be warmed on the ground,
15 and it forgets that a foot might crush an egg,[a]
and a wild animal[b] might trample it.[c]
16 It deals cruelly with its young ones, as if they were not its own,
as if without fear that its labor were in vain,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 39:15 Hebrew “it”; or a collective singular (“them”) referring to “eggs” in v. 14
  2. Job 39:15 Literally “an animal of the field”
  3. Job 39:15 Or a collective singular (“them”) referring to “eggs” in v. 14