Job - Chapter 39 | English Standard Version

  • 1. "Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does?
  • 2. Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth,
  • 3. when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young?
  • 4. Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them.
  • 5. "Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
  • 6. to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place?
  • 7. He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver.
  • 8. He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
  • 9. "Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your manger?
  • 10. Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?
  • 11. Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor?
  • 12. Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
  • 13. "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love?
  • 14. For she leaves her eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground,
  • 15. forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them.
  • 16. She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,
  • 17. because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding.
  • 18. When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider.
  • 19. "Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane?
  • 20. Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrifying.
  • 21. He paws in the valley and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons.
  • 22. He laughs at fear and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword.
  • 23. Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear and the javelin.
  • 24. With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
  • 25. When the trumpet sounds, he says 'Aha!' He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
  • 26. "Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south?
  • 27. Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high?
  • 28. On the rock he dwells and makes his home, on the rocky crag and stronghold.
  • 29. From there he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it afar off.
  • 30. His young ones suck up blood, and where the slain are, there is he."
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