Job 39
Job 39:1 Do you know the time mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the deer in labor?
Job 39:2 Can you count the months they are pregnant so you can know the time they give birth?
Job 39:3 They crouch down to give birth to their young; they deliver their newborn.
Job 39:4 Their offspring are healthy and grow up in the open field. They leave and do not return.
Job 39:5 Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from its bonds?
Job 39:6 I made the desert its home, and the salty wasteland its dwelling.
Job 39:7 It avoids the noise of the village and never hears the shouts of a driver.
Job 39:8 It roams the mountains for its pastureland, searching for anything green.
Job 39:9 Would the wild ox be willing to work for you? Would it spend the night by your feeding trough?
Job 39:10 Can you hold the wild ox to a furrow by its harness? Will it plow the valleys behind you?
Job 39:11 Can you depend on it because its strength is great? Would you leave it to do your hard work?
Job 39:12 Can you trust the wild ox to harvest your grain and bring it to your threshing floor?
Job 39:13 The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but are her feathers and plumage like the stork’s?
Job 39:14 She abandons her eggs on the ground and lets them be warmed in the sand.
Job 39:15 She forgets that a foot may crush them or that some wild animal may trample them.
Job 39:16 She treats her young harshly, as if they were not her own, with no fear that her labor may have been in vain.
Job 39:17 You see, God has deprived her of wisdom; he has not endowed her with insight.
Job 39:18 When she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.
Job 39:19 Do you give strength to the horse? Do you adorn his neck with a mane?
Job 39:20 Do you make him leap like a locust? His proud snorting fills one with terror.
Job 39:21 He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he charges into battle.
Job 39:22 He laughs at fear since he is afraid of nothing; he does not run from the sword.
Job 39:23 A quiver rattles at his side, along with a flashing spear and a javelin.
Job 39:24 He chews up the ground with trembling rage; he cannot stand still at the trumpet’s sound.
Job 39:25 When the trumpet blasts, he snorts defiantly. He smells the battle from a distance; he hears the officers’ shouts and the battle cry.
Job 39:26 Does the hawk take flight by your insight and spread its wings to the south?
Job 39:27 Does the eagle soar at your command and make its nest high?
Job 39:28 It lives on a cliff where it spends the night; its stronghold is on a rocky crag.
Job 39:29 From there it searches for prey; its eyes penetrate the distance.
Job 39:30 Its brood gulps down blood, and where the slain are, it is there.
