Job 39
39
1Do you know when mountain goats are born?
Have you watched wild deer give birth?
2Do you know how long they carry their young?
Do you know the time for their birth?
3Do you know when they will crouch down
and bring their young into the world?
4In the wilds their young grow strong;
they go away and don't come back.
5Who gave the wild donkeys their freedom?
Who turned them loose and let them roam?
6I gave them the desert to be their home,
and let them live on the salt plains.
7They keep far away from the noisy cities,
and no one can tame them and make them work.
8The mountains are the pastures where they feed,
where they search for anything green to eat.
9Will a wild ox work for you?
Is he willing to spend the night in your stable?
10Can you hold one with a rope and make him plough?
Or make him pull a harrow in your fields?
11Can you rely on his great strength
and expect him to do your heavy work?
12Do you expect him to bring in your harvest
and gather the grain from your threshing place?
13How fast the wings of an ostrich beat!
But no ostrich can fly like a stork.#39.13 Verse 13 in Hebrew is unclear.
14The ostrich leaves her eggs on the ground
for the heat in the soil to warm them.
15She is unaware that a foot may crush them
or a wild animal break them.
16She acts as if the eggs were not hers,
and is unconcerned that her efforts were wasted.
17It was I who made her foolish
and did not give her wisdom.
18But when she begins to run,#39.18 Probable text run; Hebrew unclear.
she can laugh at any horse and rider.
19Was it you, Job, who made horses so strong
and gave them their flowing manes?
20Did you make them leap like locusts
and frighten people with their snorting?
21They eagerly paw the ground in the valley;
they rush into battle with all their strength.
22They do not know the meaning of fear,
and no sword can turn them back.
23The weapons which their riders carry
rattle and flash in the sun.
24Trembling with excitement, the horses race ahead;
when the trumpet blows, they can't stand still.
25At each blast of the trumpet they snort;
they can smell a battle before they get near,
and they hear the officers shouting commands.
26Does a hawk learn from you how to fly
when it spreads its wings towards the south?
27Does an eagle wait for your command
to build its nest high in the mountains?
28It makes its home on the highest rocks
and makes the sharp peaks its fortress.
29From there it watches near and far
for something to kill and eat.
30 #
Mt 24.28; Lk 17.37 Around dead bodies the eagles gather,
and the young eagles drink the blood.
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Job 39
39
1Hast thou known the time of The bearing of the wild goats of the rock? The bringing forth of hinds thou dost mark!
2Thou dost number the months they fulfil? And thou hast known the time of their bringing forth!
3They bow down, Their young ones they bring forth safely, Their pangs they cast forth.
4Safe are their young ones, They grow up in the field, they have gone out, And have not returned to them.
5Who hath sent forth the wild ass free? Yea, the bands of the wild ass who opened?
6Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,
7He doth laugh at the multitude of a city, The cries of an exactor he heareth not.
8The range of mountains [is] his pasture, And after every green thing he seeketh.
9Is a Reem willing to serve thee? Doth he lodge by thy crib?
10Dost thou bind a Reem in a furrow [with] his thick band? Doth he harrow valleys after thee?
11Dost thou trust in him because great [is] his power? And dost thou leave unto him thy labour?
12Dost thou trust in him That he doth bring back thy seed? And [to] thy threshing-floor doth gather [it]?
13The wing of the rattling ones exulteth, Whether the pinion of the ostrich or hawk.
14For she leaveth on the earth her eggs, And on the dust she doth warm them,
15And she forgetteth that a foot may press it, And a beast of the field tread it down.
16Her young ones it hath hardened without her, In vain [is] her labour without fear.
17For God hath caused her to forget wisdom, And He hath not given a portion To her in understanding:
18At the time on high she lifteth herself up, She laugheth at the horse and at his rider.
19Dost thou give to the horse might? Dost thou clothe his neck [with] a mane?
20Dost thou cause him to rush as a locust? The majesty of his snorting [is] terrible.
21They dig in a valley, and he rejoiceth in power, He goeth forth to meet the armour.
22He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted, And he turneth not back from the face of the sword.
23Against him rattle doth quiver, The flame of a spear, and a halbert.
24With trembling and rage he swalloweth the ground, And remaineth not stedfast Because of the sound of a trumpet.
25Among the trumpets he saith, Aha, And from afar he doth smell battle, Roaring of princes and shouting.
26By thine understanding flieth a hawk? Spreadeth he his wings to the south?
27At thy command goeth an eagle up high? Or lifteth he up his nest?
28A rock he doth inhabit, Yea, he lodgeth on the tooth of a rock, and fortress.
29From thence he hath sought food, To a far off place his eyes look attentively,
30And his brood gulp up blood, And where the pierced [are] — there [is] he!
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