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