Job 38:41

41. They wander for lack of meat Better, (and) wander without food. The question includes the whole verse. “Of the raven,” says Dr. Tristram, ( Natural History,) “ there are eight species found in Palestine. In no country are the species more numerous in individuals. Of all the birds of Jerusalem the raven tribe are the most characteristic and conspicuous, though the larger species is quite outnumbered by its smaller companion. They are present everywhere to eye and ear, and the odours that float around remind us of their use. The raven is a bird of almost world-wide distribution. It is found from Iceland to Japan.”… In turning to the kingdom of birds we should have expected the mention of their king, the eagle; but instead, it is, as in Luke 12:24, the clamorous raven, with its hoarse croaking, that is singled out. Even this bird, filthy and ceremonially unclean, serves as an emblem of God’s protecting care and goodness. It was an olden belief, as appears in the works of Aristotle, AElian, and Philo, that the raven was cruel to its young, “driving them from the nest and compelling them to fly.” (Pliny.) Even such ugly, raven -ous waifs God takes care of; he hears their hateful cry and gives them food. Psalms 147:9. “Do not therefore, O Job, imagine that because I afflict thee, therefore I do not love thee.” Chrysostom.