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Job 39 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:1 - Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:2 - Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:3 - They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:4 - Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:5 - Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:6 - To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:7 - He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:8 - He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:9 - Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:10 - Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:11 - Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:12 - Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:13 - Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:14 - That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:15 - Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:16 - She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:17 - For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:18 - When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:19 - Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:20 - Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:21 - He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:22 - In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:23 - The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:24 - Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:25 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:26 - Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:27 - Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:28 - On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:29 - From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:30 - His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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