Job 39 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

God Speaks of Nature and Its Beings

Job 39:1

Job 39:1Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?

Job 39:2

Job 39:2Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?

Job 39:3

Job 39:3They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.

Job 39:4

Job 39:4Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.

Job 39:5

Job 39:5Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?

Job 39:6

Job 39:6To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.

Job 39:7

Job 39:7He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;

Job 39:8

Job 39:8He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.

Job 39:9

Job 39:9Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?

Job 39:10

Job 39:10Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?

Job 39:11

Job 39:11Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?

Job 39:12

Job 39:12Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?

Job 39:13

Job 39:13Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,

Job 39:14

Job 39:14That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,

Job 39:15

Job 39:15Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?

Job 39:16

Job 39:16She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.

Job 39:17

Job 39:17For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.

Job 39:18

Job 39:18When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.

Job 39:19

Job 39:19Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?

Job 39:20

Job 39:20Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?

Job 39:21

Job 39:21He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.

Job 39:22

Job 39:22In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.

Job 39:23

Job 39:23The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow.

Job 39:24

Job 39:24Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;

Job 39:25

Job 39:25When 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.

Job 39:26

Job 39:26Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?

Job 39:27

Job 39:27Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?

Job 39:28

Job 39:28On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place.

Job 39:29

Job 39:29From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.

Job 39:30

Job 39:30His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

Job 39 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

God Speaks of Nature and Its Beings

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