Job 39:16

Job 39:16 in 6 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

16She treats her young harshly, as if they were not hers;

she cares not that her labor was in vain,

16“She treats her young cruelly, as if they were not hers;

Though her labor is for nothing, she is 39:16 Lit without fearunconcerned,

16She treats her young cruelly, as if they were not hers;

Though her labor be in vain, she is unconcerned;

16“She treats her young cruelly, as if they were not hers;

Though her labor is in vain because she is unconcerned [for the safety of her brood],

16She treats her young harshly, as if not her own,

with no concern that her labor was in vain.

16Ostriches are mean to their little ones.

They treat them as if they did not belong to them.

They do not care that their work was useless.