Job 39:16
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She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.
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Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
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?
They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.
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?