Job 39

Job 39

Mountain goat and doe

1Do you know when mountain goats give birth;

do you observe the birthing of does?

2Can you count the months of pregnancy;

do you know when they give birth?

3They crouch, split open for their young,

send forth their offspring.

4Their young are healthy; they grow up in the open country,

leave and never return.

Wild donkey

5Who freed the wild donkey,

6to whom I gave the desert as home,

7He laughs at the clamor of the town,

8searches the hills for food

Wild ox

9Will the wild ox agree to be your slave,

or will it spend the night in your crib?

10Can you bind it with a rope to a plowed row;

will it plow the valley behind you?

11Will you trust it because its strength is great

so that you can leave your work to it?

12Can you rely on it to bring back your grain

to gather into your threshing floor?

Ostrich

13The ostrich’s wings flap joyously,

but her wings and plumage are like a stork.

14She leaves her eggs on the earth,

lets them warm in the dust,

15then forgets that a foot may crush them

16She treats her young harshly as if they were not hers,

without worrying that her labor might be in vain;

17God didn’t endow her with sense,

didn’t give her some good sense.

18When she flaps her wings high,

she laughs at horse and rider.

Horse

19Did you give strength to the horse,

20cause him to leap like a locust,

21He paws in the valley, prances proudly,[#39.21 Or they]

22laughs at fear, unafraid.

He doesn’t turn away from the sword;

23a quiver of arrows flies by him,

24Excitedly, trembling, he swallows the ground;

can’t stand still at a trumpet’s blast.

25At a trumpet’s sound, he says, “Aha!”

smells the battle from afar,

Hawk and eagle

26Is it due to your understanding that the hawk flies,

spreading its wings to the south?

27Or at your command does the eagle soar,

the vulture build a nest on high?

28They dwell on an outcropping of rock,

their fortress on rock’s edge.

29From there they search for food;

their eyes notice it from afar,

30and their young lap up blood;

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