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Job 39

The Message Bible MSG

1 "Do you know the month when mountain goats give birth? Have you ever watched a doe bear her fawn?

2 Do you know how many months she is pregnant? Do you know the season of her delivery,

3 when she crouches down and drops her offspring?

4 Her young ones flourish and are soon on their own; they leave and don't come back.

5 "Who do you think set the wild donkey free, opened the corral gates and let him go?

6 I gave him the whole wilderness to roam in, the rolling plains and wide-open places.

7 He laughs at his city cousins, who are harnessed and harried. He's oblivious to the cries of teamsters.

8 He grazes freely through the hills, nibbling anything that's green.

9 "Will the wild buffalo condescend to serve you, volunteer to spend the night in your barn?

10 Can you imagine hitching your plow to a buffalo and getting him to till your fields?

11 He's hugely strong, yes, but could you trust him, would you dare turn the job over to him?

12 You wouldn't for a minute depend on him, would you, to do what you said when you said it?

13 "The ostrich flaps her wings futilely - all those beautiful feathers, but useless!

14 She lays her eggs on the hard ground, leaves them there in the dirt, exposed to the weather,

15 Not caring that they might get stepped on and cracked or trampled by some wild animal.

16 She's negligent with her young, as if they weren't even hers. She cares nothing about anything.

17 She wasn't created very smart, that's for sure, wasn't given her share of good sense.

18 But when she runs, oh, how she runs, laughing, leaving horse and rider in the dust.

19 "Are you the one who gave the horse his prowess and adorned him with a shimmering mane?

20 Did you create him to prance proudly and strike terror with his royal snorts?

21 He paws the ground fiercely, eager and spirited, then charges into the fray.

22 He laughs at danger, fearless, doesn't shy away from the sword.

23 The banging and clanging of quiver and lance don't faze him.

24 He quivers with excitement, and at the trumpet blast races off at a gallop.

25 At the sound of the trumpet he neighs mightily, smelling the excitement of battle from a long way off, catching the rolling thunder of the war cries.

26 "Was it through your know how that the hawk learned to fly, soaring effortlessly on thermal updrafts?

27 Did you command the eagle's flight, and teach her to build her nest in the heights,

28 Perfectly at home on the high cliff-face, invulnerable on pinnacle and crag?

29 From her perch she searches for prey, spies it at a great distance.

30 Her young gorge themselves on carrion; wherever there's a roadkill, you'll see her circling."

English Standard Version ESV

1 “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does?

2 Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth,

3 when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young?

4 Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them.

5 “Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,

6 to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place?

7 He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver.

8 He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

9 “Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your manger?

10 Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?

11 Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor?

12 Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?

13 “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love?

14 For she leaves her eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground,

15 forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them.

16 She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,

17 because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding.

18 When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider.

19 “Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane?

20 Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrifying.

21 He paws in the valley and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons.

22 He laughs at fear and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword.

23 Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear, and the javelin.

24 With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

25 When the trumpet sounds, he says ‘Aha! ’He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

26 “Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south?

27 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high?

28 On the rock he dwells and makes his home, on the rocky crag and stronghold.

29 From there he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it from far away.

30 His young ones suck up blood, and where the slain are, there is he. ”