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Job 39

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1 Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?

2 Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?

3 They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.

4 Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.

5 Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?

6 To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.

7 He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;

8 He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.

9 Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?

10 Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?

11 Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?

12 Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?

13 Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,

14 That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,

15 Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?

16 She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.

17 For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.

18 When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.

19 Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?

20 Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?

21 He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.

22 In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.

23 The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow.

24 Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;

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.

26 Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?

27 Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?

28 On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place.

29 From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.

30 His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.

New International Version NIV

1 “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?

2 Do you count the months till they bear? Do you know the time they give birth?

3 They crouch down and bring forth their young; their labor pains are ended.

4 Their young thrive and grow strong in the wilds; they leave and do not return.

5 “Who let the wild donkey go free? Who untied its ropes?

6 I gave it the wasteland as its home, the salt flats as its habitat.

7 It laughs at the commotion in the town; it does not hear a driver’s shout.

8 It ranges the hills for its pasture and searches for any green thing.

9 “Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will it stay by your manger at night?

10 Can you hold it to the furrow with a harness? Will it till the valleys behind you?

11 Will you rely on it for its great strength? Will you leave your heavy work to it?

12 Can you trust it to haul in your grain and bring it to your threshing floor?

13 “The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, though they cannot compare with the wings and feathers of the stork.

14 She lays her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand,

15 unmindful that a foot may crush them, that some wild animal may trample them.

16 She treats her young harshly, as if they were not hers; she cares not that her labor was in vain,

17 for God did not endow her with wisdom or give her a share of good sense.

18 Yet when she spreads her feathers to run, she laughs at horse and rider.

19 “Do you give the horse its strength or clothe its neck with a flowing mane?

20 Do you make it leap like a locust, striking terror with its proud snorting?

21 It paws fiercely, rejoicing in its strength, and charges into the fray.

22 It laughs at fear, afraid of nothing; it does not shy away from the sword.

23 The quiver rattles against its side, along with the flashing spear and lance.

24 In frenzied excitement it eats up the ground; it cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds.

25 At the blast of the trumpet it snorts, ‘Aha!’ It catches the scent of battle from afar, the shout of commanders and the battle cry.

26 “Does the hawk take flight by your wisdom and spread its wings toward the south?

27 Does the eagle soar at your command and build its nest on high?

28 It dwells on a cliff and stays there at night; a rocky crag is its stronghold.

29 From there it looks for food; its eyes detect it from afar.

30 Its young ones feast on blood, and where the slain are, there it is.”