Job Chapter 39 Back Next{39:1} "Do you know the time when the mountain
goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
{39:2} Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?
{39:3} They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, they end their labor pains.
{39:4} Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open
field. They go forth, and don't return again.
{39:5} "Who has set the wild
donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
{39:6} Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?
{39:7} He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.
{39:8} The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.
{39:9} "Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
{39:10} Can you hold the wild ox in the
furrow with his
harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?
{39:11} Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?
{39:12} Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the
grain of your threshing floor?
{39:13} "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love?
{39:14} For she leaves her
eggs on the
earth, warms them in the
dust,
{39:15} and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.
{39:16} She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
{39:17} because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
{39:18} When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the
horse and his rider.
{39:19} "Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?
{39:20} Have you made him to leap as a
locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.
{39:21} He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.
{39:22} He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn back from the sword.
{39:23} The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the
javelin.
{39:24} He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
{39:25} As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, '
Aha!' He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the
captains, and the shouting.
{39:26} "Is it by your wisdom that the
hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?
{39:27} Is it at your command that the
eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?
{39:28} On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.
{39:29} From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.
{39:30} His young ones also suck up
blood. Where the slain are, there he is."
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