Job 39
39
1#1Sa 24:2; Ps 29:9 “Do you know the time when the wild mountain goats produce offspring?
Or can you observe when the deer gives birth?
2Can you number the months that they fulfill,
or do you know the time when they bring forth?
3They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones,
they get rid of their labor pains.
4Their young ones are healthy, they grow strong with grain;
they go forth and do not return to them.
5#Job 6:5; 11:12 “Who has sent out the wild donkey free?
Or who has loosed the bands of the wild donkey,
6#Ps 107:34; Dt 29:23 whose home I have made the wilderness,
and the barren land his dwelling?
7#Job 3:18 He scorns the multitude in the city
and does not regard the shouts of the driver.
8The range of the mountains is his pasture,
and he searches after every green thing.
9#Nu 23:22; Dt 33:17; Ps 92:10 “Will the wild ox be willing to serve you
or spend the night by your manger?
10Can you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes?
Or will he plow the valleys behind you?
11Will you trust him because his strength is great?
Or will you leave your labor to him?
12Will you trust him to bring home your grain
and gather it into your barn?
13“Did you give the beautiful wings to the peacocks?
Or wings and feathers to the ostrich,
14who leaves her eggs in the earth,
and warms them in dust,
15and forgets that a foot may crush them,
or that the wild beast may break them?
16#La 4:3 She is hardened against her young ones,
as though they were not hers;
her labor is in vain, without concern,
17#Job 35:11 because God has deprived her of wisdom,
nor has He imparted understanding to her.
18When she lifts up herself on high,
she scorns the horse and his rider.
19“Have you given the horse strength?
Have you clothed his neck with thunder?
20#Jer 8:16 Can you make him afraid like a grasshopper?
The glory of his nostrils is awesome.
21#Jer 8:6 He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength;
he goes on to meet the armed men.
22He mocks at fear and is not frightened,
nor does he turn back from the sword.
23The quiver rattles against him,
the glittering spear and the shield.
24He devours the distance with fierceness and rage,
and he does not stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
25At the sound of the trumpet he says, ‘Aha’;
he smells the battle afar off,
the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
26“Does the hawk fly by your wisdom,
and stretch her wings toward the south?
27#Jer 49:16; Ob 1:4 Does the eagle mount up at your command
and make her nest on high?
28She dwells and remains on the rock,
upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
29#Job 9:26 From there she seeks the prey,
and her eyes see it from afar.
30#Mt 24:28; Lk 17:37 Her young ones also suck up blood,
and where the slain are, there she is.”
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Job 39
39
Mountain goat and doe
1Do you know when mountain goats give birth;
do you observe the birthing of does?
2Can you count the months of pregnancy;
do you know when they give birth?
3They crouch, split open for their young,
send forth their offspring.
4Their young are healthy; they grow up in the open country,
leave and never return.
Wild donkey
5Who freed the wild donkey,
loosed the ropes of the onager
6to whom I gave the desert as home,
his dwelling place in the salt flats?
7He laughs at the clamor of the town,
doesn’t hear the driver’s shout,
8searches the hills for food
and seeks any green sprout.
Wild ox
9Will the wild ox agree to be your slave,
or will it spend the night in your crib?
10Can you bind it with a rope to a plowed row;
will it plow the valley behind you?
11Will you trust it because its strength is great
so that you can leave your work to it?
12Can you rely on it to bring back your grain
to gather into your threshing floor?
Ostrich
13The ostrich’s wings flap joyously,
but her wings and plumage are like a stork.
14She leaves her eggs on the earth,
lets them warm in the dust,
15then forgets that a foot may crush them
or a wild animal trample them.
16She treats her young harshly as if they were not hers,
without worrying that her labor might be in vain;
17God didn’t endow her with sense,
didn’t give her some good sense.
18When she flaps her wings high,
she laughs at horse and rider.
Horse
19Did you give strength to the horse,
clothe his neck with a mane,
20cause him to leap like a locust,
his majestic snorting, a fright?
21He#39.21 Or they paws in the valley, prances proudly,
charges at battle weapons,
22laughs at fear, unafraid.
He doesn’t turn away from the sword;
23a quiver of arrows flies by him,
flashing spear and dagger.
24Excitedly, trembling, he swallows the ground;
can’t stand still at a trumpet’s blast.
25At a trumpet’s sound, he says, “Aha!”
smells the battle from afar,
hears#39.25 Heb lacks hears. officers’ shouting and the battle cry.
Hawk and eagle
26Is it due to your understanding that the hawk flies,
spreading its wings to the south?
27Or at your command does the eagle soar,
the vulture build a nest on high?
28They dwell on an outcropping of rock,
their fortress on rock’s edge.
29From there they search for food;
their eyes notice it from afar,
30and their young lap up blood;
where carcasses lie, there they are.
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