Job 39:15 Meaning and Explanation
“And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →The ostrich seems to forget that a foot might crush her eggs or a wild animal trample them.
What Does Job 39:15 Mean?
The description of the ostrich's nesting continues: she appears to forget the dangers, that a passing foot or a wild beast could shatter the eggs she left in the open earth.
The bird's apparent heedlessness is real, yet she survives and her kind endures, because she lives within a larger keeping than her own. The point is not to praise the ostrich's wisdom but to humble Job's. He cannot account for why creation runs as it does, nor why some things flourish despite what looks to us like folly. Only the Maker holds the whole, sustaining life by means that confound our reckoning, and what seems precarious to us is steady in His hands.
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What does Job 39:15 mean?
The ostrich seems to forget that a foot might crush her eggs or a wild animal trample them.