Job Chapter 39

• Job 39:1
  Job.
• Job 39:2
  “Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
• Job 39:3
  Can you count the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?
• Job 39:4
  They bow themselves. They bear their young. They end their labor pains.
• Job 39:5
  Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go out, and don’t return again.
• Job 39:6
  “Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
• Job 39:7
  whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?
• Job 39:8
  He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.
• Job 39:9
  The range of the mountains is his pasture. He searches after every green thing.
• Job 39:10
  “Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
• Job 39:11
  Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?
• Job 39:12
  Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?
• Job 39:13
  Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?
• Job 39:14
  “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the feathers and plumage of love?
• Job 39:15
  For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,
• Job 39:16
  and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.
• Job 39:17
  She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
• Job 39:18
  because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
• Job 39:19
  When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.
• Job 39:20
  “Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?
• Job 39:21
  Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.
• Job 39:22
  He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.
• Job 39:23
  He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn back from the sword.
• Job 39:24
  The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.
• Job 39:25
  He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
• Job 39:26
  As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
• Job 39:27
  “Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?
• Job 39:28
  Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?
• Job 39:29
  On the cliff he dwells and makes his home, on the point of the cliff and the stronghold.
• Job 39:30
  From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.
• Job 39:31
  His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is.”