Job - Chapter 39 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Do you know when mountain goats are born? Have you watched wild deer give birth?
  • 2. Do you know how long they carry their young? Do you know the time for their birth?
  • 3. Do you know when they will crouch down and bring their young into the world?
  • 4. In the wilds their young grow strong; they go away and don't come back.
  • 5. Who gave the wild donkeys their freedom? Who turned them loose and let them roam?
  • 6. I gave them the desert to be their home, and let them live on the salt plains.
  • 7. They keep far away from the noisy cities, and no one can tame them and make them work.
  • 8. The mountains are the pastures where they feed, where they search for anything green to eat.
  • 9. Will a wild ox work for you? Is he willing to spend the night in your stable?
  • 10. Can you hold one with a rope and make him plow? Or make him pull a harrow in your fields?
  • 11. Can you rely on his great strength and expect him to do your heavy work?
  • 12. Do you expect him to bring in your harvest and gather the grain from your threshing place?
  • 13. How fast the wings of an ostrich beat! But no ostrich can fly like a stork.
  • 14. The ostrich leaves her eggs on the ground for the heat in the soil to warm them.
  • 15. She is unaware that a foot may crush them or a wild animal break them.
  • 16. She acts as if the eggs were not hers, and is unconcerned that her efforts were wasted.
  • 17. It was I who made her foolish and did not give her wisdom.
  • 18. But when she begins to run, she can laugh at any horse and rider.
  • 19. Was it you, Job, who made horses so strong and gave them their flowing manes?
  • 20. Did you make them leap like locusts and frighten people with their snorting?
  • 21. They eagerly paw the ground in the valley; they rush into battle with all their strength.
  • 22. They do not know the meaning of fear, and no sword can turn them back.
  • 23. The weapons which their riders carry rattle and flash in the sun.
  • 24. Trembling with excitement, the horses race ahead; when the trumpet blows, they can't stand still.
  • 25. At each blast of the trumpet they snort; they can smell a battle before they get near, and they hear the officers shouting commands.
  • 26. Does a hawk learn from you how to fly when it spreads its wings toward the south?
  • 27. Does an eagle wait for your command to build its nest high in the mountains?
  • 28. It makes its home on the highest rocks and makes the sharp peaks its fortress.
  • 29. From there it watches near and far for something to kill and eat.
  • 30. Around dead bodies the eagles gather, and the young eagles drink the blood.
أعلى