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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."

King James Version KJV

1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.

4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.

5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.

8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

9 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?

10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

11 Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?

13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.

16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;

17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

18 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

19 Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?

20 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.

21 He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.

22 He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.

23 The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.

24 He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.

25 He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

26 Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?

27 Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?

28 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.

29 From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.

30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.