Bible Verses About Animals: Instincts of

As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,

Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;

The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.