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
1 “Do you know the time when the goats of the rocks give birth?
Do you observe the doe deer’s giving birth?
2Can you number the months they fulfill,
and do you know the time of its giving birth?
3When they crouch, they bring forth their young ones;
they get rid of their labor pains.#Or “deliver their fetuses”
4Their young ones grow strong; they grow up in the open;
they go forth and do not return to them.
5“Who has sent forth the wild ass free?
And who has released the wild donkey’s bonds,
6to which I have given the wilderness as its house
and the salt flat as its dwelling place?
7It scorns the city’s turmoil;
it does not hear the driver’s shouts.
8It explores the mountains as its pasture
and searches after every kind of green plant.
9“Is the wild ox willing to serve you,
or will he spend the night at your feeding trough?
10Can you tie the wild ox with its rope to a furrow,
or will it harrow the valleys after you?
11Can you trust it because its strength is great,
or will you hand your labor over to it?
12Can you rely on it that it will return your grain
and that it will gather it to your threshing floor?
13“The wings#Hebrew “wing” of the female ostrich flap#Or “flaps”—
are they#Or “if,” or “or” the pinions of the stork or#Hebrew “and” the falcon?
14Indeed, it leaves its eggs to the earth,
and it lets them be warmed on the ground,
15and it forgets that a foot might crush an egg,#Hebrew “it”; or a collective singular (“them”) referring to “eggs” in v. 14
and a wild animal#Literally “an animal of the field” might trample it.#Or a collective singular (“them”) referring to “eggs” in v. 14
16It deals cruelly with its young ones, as if they were not its own,
as if without fear that its labor were in vain,
17because God made it forget wisdom,
and he did not give it a share in understanding.
18When it spreads its wings aloft,#Literally “in the height”
it laughs at the horse and its rider.
19“Do you give power to the horse?
Do you clothe its neck with a mane?
20Do you make it leap like the locust?
The majesty of its snorting is terrifying.
21They paw in the valley, and it exults with strength;
it goes out to meet the battle.
22It laughs at danger and is not dismayed,
and it does not turn back from before#Literally “from faces of” the sword.
23Upon it the quiver rattles
along with the flash of the spear and the short sword.
24With roar and rage it races over the ground,#Or “it paws the ground”; literally “it swallows the earth/ground”
and it cannot stand still at the sound of the horn.
25Whenever#Literally “At enough” a horn sounds, it says, ‘Aha!’
And it smells the battle from a distance—
the thunder of the commanders and the war cry.
26“Does the hawk soar by your wisdom?
Does it spread its wings to the south?
27Or does the eagle fly high at your command
and construct its nest high?
28It lives on the rock and spends the night
on the rock point and the mountain stronghold.#Literally “on the tooth of the rock and the stronghold”
29From there it spies out the prey;
its eyes look from far away.
30And its young ones lick blood greedily,
and where the dead carcasses are, there they are.”
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