Job 39:13

The verse reads,

The wing of the ostrich beats joyously,

Is it a kindly pinion and feather?

The word rendered ostrichmeans lit. cryingor wailing, that is, the cryer or wailer; the female ostrich is probably meant, see on ch. Job 30:29. The word "kindly," lit. pious, is the name given to the stork (Psalms 104:17), whose affection for its young is proverbial, and there may be in the term an allusion to this bird, which the ostrich in some points resembles externally, but from which it differs so strangely in disposition.