Iyov (Job) 39
39
1“Do you know when mountain goats give birth?
Have you seen deer in labor?
2Can you tell how many months they carry their young?
Do you know when they give birth,
3when they crouch down and bring forth their young,
when they deliver their fawns?
4Their young become strong, growing up in the open;
they leave and never return.
5“Who lets the wild donkey roam freely?
Who sets the wild donkey loose from its shackles?
6I made the ‘Aravah its home,
the salty desert its place to live.
7It scorns the noise of the city
and hears no driver’s shouts.
8It ranges over the hills for its pasture,
searching for anything green.
9“Would a wild ox be willing to serve you?
Would it stay by your stall?
10Could you tie a rope around its neck
and make it plow furrows for you?
11Would you trust its great strength enough
to let it do your heavy work,
12or rely on it to bring home your seed
and gather the grain from your threshing-floor?
13“An ostrich’s wings beat wildly,
although its pinions lack plumage.
14It leaves its eggs on the ground
and lets them be warmed by the sand,
15forgetting that a foot may crush them
or a wild animal trample on them.
16It treats its chicks heartlessly,
as if they were not its own;
even if her labor is in vain,
it really doesn’t care;
17because God has deprived it of wisdom
and given it no share in understanding.
18When the time comes, it flaps its wings,
scorning both horse and rider.
19“Did you give the horse its strength?
Did you clothe its neck with a mane?
20Did you make him able to leap like a locust?
Its majestic snorting is frightening!
21It paws with force and exults with vigor,
then charges into the battle;
22mocking at fear, unafraid,
it does not shy away from the sword.
23The [rider’s] quiver rattles over it,
[his] gleaming spear and javelin.
24Frenzied and eager, it devours the ground,
scarcely believing the shofar has sounded.
25At the sound of the shofar it whinnies;
as from afar it scents the battle,
the roar of the chiefs and the shouting.
26“Is it your wisdom that sets the hawk soaring,
spreading its wings toward the south?
27Does the eagle fly up when you say so,
to build its nest in the heights?
28It lives and spends its nights on the cliffs;
a rocky crag is its fortress.
29From there it spots its prey,
its eyes see it far off.
30Its young ones suck up blood;
wherever the slain are, there it is.”
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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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