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Job 39 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:1 - “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?
Do you observe the calving of the does?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:2 - Can you number the months that they fulfill,
and do you know the time when they give birth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:3 - when they crouch, bring forth their offspring,
and are delivered of their young?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:4 - Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open;
they go out and do not return to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:5 - “Who has let the wild donkey go free?
Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:6 - to whom I have given the arid plain for his home
and the salt land for his dwelling place?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:7 - He scorns the tumult of the city;
he hears not the shouts of the driver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:8 - He ranges the mountains as his pasture,
and he searches after every green thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:9 - “Is the wild ox willing to serve you?
Will he spend the night at your manger?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:10 - Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes,
or will he harrow the valleys after you?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:11 - Will you depend on him because his strength is great,
and will you leave to him your labor?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:12 - Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain
and gather it to your threshing floor?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:13 - “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,
but are they the pinions and plumage of love?[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:14 - For she leaves her eggs to the earth
and lets them be warmed on the ground,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:15 - forgetting that a foot may crush them
and that the wild beast may trample them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:16 - She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers;
though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:17 - because God has made her forget wisdom
and given her no share in understanding.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:18 - When she rouses herself to flee,[fn]
she laughs at the horse and his rider.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:19 - “Do you give the horse his might?
Do you clothe his neck with a mane?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:20 - Do you make him leap like the locust?
His majestic snorting is terrifying.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:21 - He paws[fn] in the valley and exults in his strength;
he goes out to meet the weapons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:22 - He laughs at fear and is not dismayed;
he does not turn back from the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:23 - Upon him rattle the quiver,
the flashing spear, and the javelin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:24 - With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground;
he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:25 - When the trumpet sounds, he says ‘Aha!’
He smells the battle from afar,
the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:26 - “Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars
and spreads his wings toward the south?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:27 - Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up
and makes his nest on high?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:28 - On the rock he dwells and makes his home,
on the rocky crag and stronghold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:29 - From there he spies out the prey;
his eyes behold it from far away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:30 - His young ones suck up blood,
and where the slain are, there is he.”
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The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Hebrew They paw
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Job Chapter 39 — Additional Translations:

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