"She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: her labour is in vain without fear;"
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The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,
She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern.
She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: her labour is in vain without fear;
\39:13\Gavest thou the goodly wings to the peacocks? or wings and feathers to the ostrich!
She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
Her young ones it hath hardened without her, In vain `is' her labour without fear.