The Ostrich
8 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
8 sections
(Companionship With) of Extreme Desolation
- Job 30:29 I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
Cruel to Her Young
- Job 39:16 She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.
Furnished with Wings and Feathers
- Job 39:13 The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.
Imprudent
- Job 39:15 She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.
Lays Her Eggs in the Sand
- Job 39:14 For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.
Rapid in Movement
- Job 39:18 Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.
Unclean and Unfit for Food
- Leviticus 11:13 Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
Void of Wisdom
- Job 39:17 For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.
Related topics
The Ostrich of the Unnatural Cruelty of the Jews in Their CalamitiesOstrichesBirds
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.