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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,
17 because God made it forget wisdom,
and he did not give it a share in understanding.

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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