Job 39
39
The LORD Continues: the Mountain Goats
1“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth?
Do you watch the does when they are in labor?
2Can you count the months they are pregnant
or know the time when they’ll give birth?
3They kneel down to give birth and deliver their young.
Then the pain of giving birth is over.
4Their young are healthy and grow up in the wild.
They leave and don’t come back.
The Wild Donkey
5“Who lets the wild donkey go free?
Who unties the ropes of the wild donkey?
6I gave it the desert to live in
and the salt flats as its dwelling place.
7It laughs at the noise of the city
and doesn’t ⌞even⌟ listen to the shouting of its master.
8It explores the mountains for its pasture
and looks for anything green.
The Wild Ox
9“Will the wild ox agree to serve you,
or will it stay at night beside your feeding trough?
10Can you guide a wild ox in a furrow,
or will it plow the valleys behind you?
11Can you trust it just because it’s so strong
or leave your labor to it?
12Can you rely on it to bring your grain back
and take it to your threshing floor? #39:12 A threshing floor is an outdoor area where grain is separated from its husks.
The Ostrich
13“Does the ostrich flap its wings in joy,
or do its wings lack feathers? #39:13 Or “Do its wings compare well with the wings and feathers of the stork?”
14It lays its eggs on the ground
and warms them in the dust.
15It forgets that a foot may crush them
or a wild animal may trample them.
16It acts harshly toward its young as if they weren’t its own.
It is not afraid that its work is for nothing
17because God has deprived it of wisdom
and did not give it any understanding.
18It laughs at the horse and its rider when it gets up to flee.
The Horse
19“Can you give strength to a horse
or dress its neck with a flowing mane?
20Can you make it leap like a locust,
when its snorting causes terror?
21It paws in strength and finds joy in its power.
It charges into battle.
22It laughs at fear,
is afraid of nothing,
and doesn’t back away from swords.
23A quiver of arrows rattles on it
along with the flashing spear and javelin.
24Anxious and excited, the horse eats up the ground
and doesn’t trust the sound of the ram’s horn.
25As often as the horn sounds, the horse says, ‘Aha!’
and it smells the battle far away—
the thundering ⌞orders⌟ of the captains and the battle cries.
The Birds of Prey
26“Does your understanding make a bird of prey fly
and spread its wings toward the south?
27Is it by your order that the eagle flies high
and makes its nest on the heights?
28It perches for the night on a cliff.
Its fortress is on a jagged peak.
29From there it seeks food,
and its eyes see it from far away.
30Its young ones feed on blood. It is found wherever there are dead bodies.”
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Job 39
39
1Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth?
Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
2Canst thou number the months that they fulfil?
Or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
3They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones,
They cast out their sorrows.
4Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn;
They go forth, and return not unto them.
5Who hath sent out the wild ass free?
Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
6Whose house I have made the wilderness,
And the barren land his dwellings.
7He scorneth the multitude of the city,
Neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
8The range of the mountains is his pasture,
And he searcheth after every green thing.
9Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee,
Or abide by thy crib?
10Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow?
Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
11Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great?
Or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
12Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed,
And gather it into thy barn?
13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks?
Or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
14Which leaveth her eggs in the earth,
And warmeth them in dust,
15And forgetteth that the foot may crush them,
Or that the wild beast may break them.
16She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's:
Her labour is in vain without fear;
17Because God hath deprived her of wisdom,
Neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
18What time she lifteth up herself on high,
She scorneth the horse and his rider.
19Hast thou given the horse strength?
Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
20Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper?
The glory of his nostrils is terrible.
21He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength:
He goeth on to meet the armed men.
22He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted;
Neither turneth he back from the sword.
23The quiver rattleth against him,
The glittering spear and the shield.
24He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage:
Neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
25He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha;
And he smelleth the battle afar off,
The thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
26Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom,
And stretch her wings toward the south?
27Doth the eagle mount up at thy command,
And make her nest on high?
28She dwelleth and abideth on the rock,
Upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
29From thence she seeketh the prey,
And her eyes behold afar off.
30Her young ones also suck up blood:
And where the slain are, there is she.
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