Job 39 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Job 39:1

Job 39:1“Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?
Do you observe the calving of the does?

Job 39:2

Job 39:2Can you number the months that they fulfill,
and do you know the time when they give birth,

Job 39:3

Job 39:3when they crouch, bring forth their offspring,
and are delivered of their young?

Job 39:4

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

Job 39:5

Job 39:5“Who has let the wild donkey go free?
Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,

Job 39:6

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

Job 39:7

Job 39:7He scorns the tumult of the city;
he hears not the shouts of the driver.

Job 39:8

Job 39:8He ranges the mountains as his pasture,
and he searches after every green thing.

Job 39:9

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

Job 39:10

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

Job 39:11

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

Job 39:12

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

Job 39:13

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

Job 39:14

Job 39:14For she leaves her eggs to the earth
and lets them be warmed on the ground,

Job 39:15

Job 39:15forgetting that a foot may crush them
and that the wild beast may trample them.

Job 39:16

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

Job 39:17

Job 39:17because God has made her forget wisdom
and given her no share in understanding.

Job 39:18

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

Job 39:19

Job 39:19“Do you give the horse his might?
Do you clothe his neck with a mane?

Job 39:20

Job 39:20Do you make him leap like the locust?
His majestic snorting is terrifying.

Job 39:21

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

Job 39:22

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

Job 39:23

Job 39:23Upon him rattle the quiver,
the flashing spear, and the javelin.

Job 39:24

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

Job 39:25

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

Job 39:26

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

Job 39:27

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

Job 39:28

Job 39:28On the rock he dwells and makes his home,
on the rocky crag and stronghold.

Job 39:29

Job 39:29From there he spies out the prey;
his eyes behold it from far away.

Job 39:30

Job 39:30His young ones suck up blood,
and where the slain are, there is he.”

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(39:13)

The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

(39:18)

The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

(39:21)

Hebrew They paw

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