Job 39:14 Meaning and Explanation
“Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →The ostrich lays her eggs on the ground and lets the warm dust and earth heat them.
What Does Job 39:14 Mean?
The portrait of the ostrich begins with her curious way of nesting. She leaves her eggs in the earth and lets the sun-warmed sand do the work of keeping them, rather than brooding them as other birds do.
To human eyes this seems careless, yet it is the way God appointed for her. The verse opens a meditation on how creatures live by instincts we would call strange, fitted to a wisdom not our own. Job is being shown a world of arrangements he did not design and cannot fully explain. The Maker governs even what looks to us like folly, and His ways run deeper than our judgments.
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What does Job 39:14 mean?
The ostrich lays her eggs on the ground and lets the warm dust and earth heat them.