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Job 39 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Job 39:1

“Do you know the time the [fn]mountain goats give birth?

Do you keep watch over the calving of the deer?

Job 39:2

“Can you count the months they fulfill,

Or do you know the time they give birth?

Job 39:3

“They kneel down; they bring forth their young;

They send out their labor pains.

Job 39:4

“Their children become strong; they grow up in the open field;

They leave and do not return to them.

Job 39:5

“Who sent out the wild donkey free?

And who loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,

Job 39:6

For whom I have set the desert plain as a home

And the salt land as his dwelling place?

Job 39:7

“He laughs at the tumult of the city;

The shoutings of the driver he does not hear.

Job 39:8

“He explores the mountains for his pasture

And searches after every green thing.

Job 39:9

“Will the wild ox consent to serve you,

Or will he spend the night at your manger?

Job 39:10

“Can you bind the wild ox in a furrow with [fn]ropes,

Or will he harrow the valleys after you?

Job 39:11

“Will you trust him because his power is great

And leave your labor to him?

Job 39:12

“Will you believe him that he will return your seed of grain

And gather it from your threshing floor?

Job 39:13

“The ostriches’ wings flap joyously

But are they the pinion and plumage of a [fn]stork?

Job 39:14

For she leaves her eggs to the earth

And warms them in the dust,

Job 39:15

And she forgets that a foot may crush [fn]them,

Or that a beast of the field may trample [fn]them.

Job 39:16

“She treats her children cruelly, as if they were not hers;

Though her labor be empty, she is without dread,

Job 39:17

Because God has made her forget wisdom,

And has not given her a share of understanding.

Job 39:18

“When she raises herself up high,

She laughs at the horse and his rider.

Job 39:19

“Do you give the horse his might?

Do you clothe his neck with a mane?

Job 39:20

“Do you make him leap like the locust?

His splendid snorting is terrible.

Job 39:21

[fn]He paws in the valley and rejoices in his power;

He goes out to meet the weapons.

Job 39:22

“He laughs at dread and is not dismayed;

And he does not turn back from the sword.

Job 39:23

“The quiver rattles against him,

The flashing spear and javelin.

Job 39:24

“With shaking and rage he [fn]races over the ground,

And he does not [fn]stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

Job 39:25

“As often as the trumpet sounds he says, ‘Aha!’

And he scents the battle from afar,

And the thunder of the commanders and the shout of war.

Job 39:26

“Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars,

Stretching his wings toward the south?

Job 39:27

“Is it at your [fn]command that the eagle goes on high

And raises his nest high?

Job 39:28

“On the cliff he dwells and lodges,

Upon the rocky crag, a fortress.

Job 39:29

“From there he [fn]spies out food;

His eyes see it from afar.

Job 39:30

“His young ones also suck up blood;

And where the slain are, there is he.”

LSB Footnotes
Lit goats of the rock
Lit his rope
Or love
Lit it
Lit it
Lit They paw
Or swallows up
Lit believe
Lit mouth
Or paws, cf. Job 39:21; lit digs
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