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16 She is bad in the way she acts toward her young, as if they were not hers. Her work of giving birth is for nothing, for she does not care. 17 Because God has not given her wisdom or her share of understanding. 18 When she begins to run, she laughs at the horse and the horseman.

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16 She treats her young harshly,(A) as if they were not hers;
    she cares not that her labor was in vain,
17 for God did not endow her with wisdom
    or give her a share of good sense.(B)
18 Yet when she spreads her feathers to run,
    she laughs(C) at horse and rider.

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16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: her labour is in vain without fear;

17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

18 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

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