Job 39:1
Do thou know the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Or can thou mark when the hinds do calve?
Job 39:2
Can thou number the months that they fulfill? Or do thou know the time when they bring forth?
Job 39:3
They bow themselves. They bring forth their young. They cast out their pains.
Job 39:4
Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go forth, and return not again.
Job 39:5
Who has sent out the wild donkey free? Or who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey
Job 39:6
whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling-place?
Job 39:7
He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shoutings of the driver.
Job 39:8
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
Job 39:9
Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?
Job 39:10
Can thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Job 39:11
Will thou trust him because his strength is great? Or will thou leave to him thy labor?
Job 39:12
Will thou confide in him that he will bring home thy seed, and gather the grain of thy threshing-floor?
Job 39:13
The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love?
Job 39:14
For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and warms them in the dust.
Job 39:15
And she forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may trample them.
Job 39:16
She deals hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor be in vain, she is without fear,
Job 39:17
because God has deprived her of wisdom, nor has he imparted understanding to her.
Job 39:18
The time she lifts up herself on high she scorns the horse and his rider.
Job 39:19
Have thou given the horse his might? Have thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane?
Job 39:20
Have thou made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.
Job 39:21
He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.
Job 39:22
He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed. Neither does he turn back from the sword.
Job 39:23
The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.
Job 39:24
He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage, nor does he believe that it is the voice of the trumpet.
Job 39:25
As often as the trumpet sounds he says, Aha! And he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Job 39:26
Is it by thy wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?
Job 39:27
Is it at thy command that the eagle mounts up, and makes her nest on high?
Job 39:28
She dwells on the cliff, and makes her home upon the point of the cliff and the stronghold.
Job 39:29
From there she spies out the prey. Her eyes behold it afar off.
Job 39:30
Her young ones also suck up blood. And where the slain are, there is she.