"Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?"
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And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.
Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?
The wing of the ostrich beats joyously -- But is it the stork's pinion and plumage?
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
\39:10\Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
"The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; But are they the feathers and plumage of love?
The wing of the rattling ones exulteth, Whether the pinion of the ostrich or hawk.