Job 39:15

JPS Old Testament

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
She forgets that a foot may crush themor that some wild animal may trample them.

Hebrew Names Version
And forgets that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild animal may trample them.

King James Version
And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.

English Standard Version
forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them.

New Century Version
It does not stop to think that a foot might step on them and crush them; it does not care that some animal might walk on them.

New English Translation
She forgets that a foot might crush them, or that a wild animal might trample them.

Amplified Bible
Forgetting that a foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may trample them.

New American Standard Bible
And she forgets that a foot may crush them, Or that a wild animal may trample them.

World English Bible
And forgets that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild animal may trample them.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And forgetteth that the foote might scatter the, or that the wild beast might breake the.

Legacy Standard Bible
And she forgets that a foot may crush them,Or that a beast of the field may trample them.

Berean Standard Bible
She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.

Contemporary English Version
And she doesn't seem to worry that the feet of an animal could crush them all.

Complete Jewish Bible
forgetting that a foot may crush them or a wild animal trample on them.

Darby Translation
And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may trample them.

Easy-to-Read Version
The ostrich forgets that someone might step on her eggs or that a wild animal might break them.

George Lamsa Translation
And because she has the feet of a bird, forgets that the wild beast may trample them.

Good News Translation
She is unaware that a foot may crush them or a wild animal break them.

Lexham English Bible
and it forgets that a foot might crush an egg, and a wild animal might trample it.

Literal Translation
and forgets that a foot may crush it, or the beast of the field may trample it;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and forgetteth them: so that they might be troden with fete, or broken with somme wilde beast.

American Standard Version
And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may trample them.

Bible in Basic English
Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?

King James Version (1611)
And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wilde beast may breake them.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
She remembreth not that they might be troden with feete, or broken with some wilde beaste.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and has forgotten that the foot will scatter them, and the wild beasts of the field trample them.

English Revised Version
And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may trample them.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He foryetith, that a foot tredith tho, ethir that a beeste of the feeld al tobrekith tho.

Update Bible Version
And forgets that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may trample them.

Webster's Bible Translation
And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.

New King James Version
She forgets that a foot may crush them, Or that a wild beast may break them.

New Living Translation
She doesn't worry that a foot might crush them or a wild animal might destroy them.

New Life Bible
She forgets that a foot might crush them, or that the wild animal may step on them.

New Revised Standard
forgetting that a foot may crush them, and that a wild animal may trample them.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And hath forgotten, that, a foot, may crush them, - or, the wild beast, tread on them!

Douay-Rheims Bible
She forgetteth that the foot may tread upon them, or that the beasts of the field may break them.

Revised Standard Version
forgetting that a foot may crush them, and that the wild beast may trample them.

Young's Literal Translation
And she forgetteth that a foot may press it, And a beast of the field tread it down.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And she forgets that a foot may crush them, Or that a wild beast may trample them.

Contextual Overview

¹³ The wing of the ostrich beateth joyously; but are her pinions and feathers the kindly stork's? ¹⁴ For she leaveth her eggs on the earth, and warmeth them in dust, ¹⁵ And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may trample them. ¹⁶ She is hardened against her young ones, as if they were not hers; though her labour be in vain, she is without fear; ¹⁷ Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath He imparted to her understanding. ¹⁸ When the time cometh, she raiseth her wings on high, and scorneth the horse and his rider.

Bible Verse Review
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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And forgetteth that the foot may crush them,.... The foot of the traveller, they being laid in the ground, where he may walk, or on the sand of the seashore, where he may tread and trample upon them unawares, and crush them to pieces; to prevent which this creature has no foresight;

or that the wild beast may break them; supposing they may be, though not where men walk, yet where wild beasts frequent, they may be as easily broken by the one as the other; against which it guards not, having no instinct in nature, as some creatures have, to direct to the preservation of them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And forgetteth that the foot may crush them - She lays her eggs in the sand, and not, as most birds do, in nests made on branches of trees, or on the crags of rocks, where they would be inaccessible, as if she was forgetful of the fact that the wild beast might pass along and crush them. She often wanders away from them, also, and does not stay near them to guard them, as most parent birds do, as if she were unmindful of the danger to which they might be exposed when she was absent. The object of all this seems to be, to call the attention to the uniqueness in the natural history of this bird, and to observe that there were laws and arrangements in regard to it which seemed to show that she was deprived of wisdom, and yet that everything was so ordered as to prove that she was under the care of the Almighty. The great variety in the laws pertaining to the animal kingdom, and especially their lack of resemblance to what would have occurred to man, seems to give the special force and point to the argument used here.