AFV2020 - Job - 39

39:1  "Do you know the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Can you observe the calving of deer?

39:2  Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time for when they give birth;

39:3  When they bow down and bring forth; and when they get rid of their birth pangs,

39:4  Their young ones are strong, they grow up in the open field; they go forth and do not return to them again.

39:5  Who has sent out the wild donkey free? Or who has loosed the bands of the swift donkey,

39:6  To whom I gave the wilderness for its home, and the salt land for its dwellings?

39:7  He scorns the tumult of the city; he does not hear the driver's shouts.

39:8  The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

39:9  Will the wild ox be willing to serve you, or spend the night by your feed trough?

39:10  Can you tie the wild ox in the furrow with rope? Or will he harrow the valleys for you?

39:11  Will you trust him because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to him?

39:12  Will you trust him, that he will bring home your seed and gather it to your threshing floor?

39:13  The wing of the ostrich beats joyously; though not like the stork's pinions with its feathers.

39:14  For she leaves her eggs in the earth, and lets them warm in the dust,

39:15  And forgets that a foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may break them.

39:16  She treats her young roughly, as if not hers; for her labor is vanity without fear;

39:17  Because God did not endow her with wisdom, and He has not imparted to her understanding.

39:18  At the time she lifts herself up high, she scorns the horse and its rider.

39:19  Have you given the horse strength? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?

39:20  Can you make him leap like a locust? The glory of his snorting is terrifying.

39:21  He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength; he goes on to meet the clash of weapons.

39:22  He mocks at fear, and is not terrified; and he does not turn back from the sword.

39:23  The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the shield.

39:24  He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage; and he does not stand still at the sound of the ram's horn.

39:25  When the ram's horn sounds, he says, 'Aha!' And he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

39:26  Does the hawk soar by your wisdom? Will he spread his wings toward the south?

39:27  Does the eagle mount up at your command and make her nest on high?

39:28  She lives and abides on the rock, on the crag of the rock and the strong place.

39:29  From there she seeks food, and her eyes see it afar off.

39:30  And her young ones also suck up blood; and where the dead are, there she is."