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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Job 39
39
1“Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?
Do you observe the calving of the deer?
2Can you number the months that they fulfill,
and do you know the time when they give birth,
3when they crouch to give birth to their offspring,
and are delivered of their young?
4Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open;
they go forth, and do not return to them.
5“Who has let the wild ass go free?
Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,
6to which I have given the steppe for its home,
the salt land for its dwelling place?
7It scorns the tumult of the city;
it does not hear the shouts of the driver.
8It ranges the mountains as its pasture,
and it searches after every green thing.
9“Is the wild ox willing to serve you?
Will it spend the night at your crib?
10Can you tie it in the furrow with ropes,
or will it harrow the valleys after you?
11Will you depend on it because its strength is great,
and will you hand over your labor to it?
12Do you have faith in it that it will return,
and bring your grain to your threshing floor?#39.12 Heb your grain and your threshing floor
13“The ostrich's wings flap wildly,
though its pinions lack plumage.#39.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain
14For it leaves its eggs to the earth,
and lets them be warmed on the ground,
15forgetting that a foot may crush them,
and that a wild animal may trample them.
16It deals cruelly with its young, as if they were not its own;
though its labor should be in vain, yet it has no fear;
17because God has made it forget wisdom,
and given it no share in understanding.
18When it spreads its plumes aloft,#39.18 Meaning of Heb uncertain
it laughs at the horse and its rider.
19“Do you give the horse its might?
Do you clothe its neck with mane?
20Do you make it leap like the locust?
Its majestic snorting is terrible.
21It paws#39.21 Gk Syr Vg: Heb they dig violently, exults mightily;
it goes out to meet the weapons.
22It laughs at fear, and is not dismayed;
it does not turn back from the sword.
23Upon it rattle the quiver,
the flashing spear, and the javelin.
24With fierceness and rage it swallows the ground;
it cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
25When the trumpet sounds, it says ‘Aha!’
From a distance it smells the battle,
the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
26“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars,
and spreads its wings toward the south?
27Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up
and makes its nest on high?
28It lives on the rock and makes its home
in the fastness of the rocky crag.
29From there it spies the prey;
its eyes see it from far away.
30Its young ones suck up blood;
and where the slain are, there it is.”
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