Job 39:1 ←
Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?
Job 39:2 ←
Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?
Job 39:3 ←
They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.
Job 39:4 ←
Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.
Job 39:5 ←
Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?
Job 39:6 ←
To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.
Job 39:7 ←
He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;
Job 39:8 ←
He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.
Job 39:9 ←
Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?
Job 39:10 ←
Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?
Job 39:11 ←
Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?
Job 39:12 ←
Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?
Job 39:13 ←
Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,
Job 39:14 ←
That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,
Job 39:15 ←
Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?
Job 39:16 ←
She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.
Job 39:17 ←
For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.
Job 39:18 ←
When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.
Job 39:19 ←
Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?
Job 39:20 ←
Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?
Job 39:21 ←
He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.
Job 39:22 ←
In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.
Job 39:23 ←
The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow.
Job 39:24 ←
Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;
Job 39:25 ←
When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries.
Job 39:26 ←
Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?
Job 39:27 ←
Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?
Job 39:28 ←
On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place.
Job 39:29 ←
From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.
Job 39:30 ←
His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.
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