Cross references
Job 39:16
She treats her young harshly, as if not her own,
with no concern that her labor was in vain.
Job 39:16 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Lamentations 4:3 (6 votes) and Deuteronomy 28:56–57 (2 votes). 8 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Deuteronomy 28 to 1 Thessalonians 2.
Which verses does Job 39:16 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Lamentations 4:36 votes
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
- Deuteronomy 28:56–572 votes
The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.
- 1 Kings 3:26–272 votes
Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!” Then the king gave his ruling: “Give the living baby to the first woman. By no means should you kill him; she is his mother.”
- 2 Kings 6:28–292 votes
Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.’ So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him.’ But she had hidden her son.”
- Ecclesiastes 10:152 votes
The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
- Lamentations 2:202 votes
Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Habakkuk 2:132 votes
Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
- Romans 1:312 votes
They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.
Which verses point to Job 39:16?
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