GodsWord - Job - 39

39:1  "Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch the does when they are in labor?

39:2  Can you count the months they are pregnant or know the time when they'll give birth?

39:3  They kneel down to give birth and deliver their young. Then the pain of giving birth is over.

39:4  Their young are healthy and grow up in the wild. They leave and don't come back.

39:5  "Who lets the wild donkey go free? Who unties the ropes of the wild donkey?

39:6  I gave it the desert to live in and the salt flats as its dwelling place.

39:7  It laughs at the noise of the city and doesn't even listen to the shouting of its master.

39:8  It explores the mountains for its pasture and looks for anything green.

39:9  "Will the wild ox agree to serve you, or will it stay at night beside your feeding trough?

39:10  Can you guide a wild ox in a furrow, or will it plow the valleys behind you?

39:11  Can you trust it just because it's so strong or leave your labor to it?

39:12  Can you rely on it to bring your grain back and take it to your threshing floor?

39:13  "Does the ostrich flap its wings in joy, or do its wings lack feathers?

39:14  It lays its eggs on the ground and warms them in the dust.

39:15  It forgets that a foot may crush them or a wild animal may trample them.

39:16  It acts harshly toward its young as if they weren't its own. It is not afraid that its work is for nothing

39:17  because God has deprived it of wisdom and did not give it any understanding.

39:18  It laughs at the horse and its rider when it gets up to flee.

39:19  "Can you give strength to a horse or dress its neck with a flowing mane?

39:20  Can you make it leap like a locust, when its snorting causes terror?

39:21  It paws in strength and finds joy in its power. It charges into battle.

39:22  It laughs at fear, is afraid of nothing, and doesn't back away from swords.

39:23  A quiver of arrows rattles on it along with the flashing spear and javelin.

39:24  Anxious and excited, the horse eats up the ground and doesn't trust the sound of the ram's horn.

39:25  As often as the horn sounds, the horse says, 'Aha!' and it smells the battle far away-- the thundering orders of the captains and the battle cries.

39:26  "Does your understanding make a bird of prey fly and spread its wings toward the south?

39:27  Is it by your order that the eagle flies high and makes its nest on the heights?

39:28  It perches for the night on a cliff. Its fortress is on a jagged peak.

39:29  From there it seeks food, and its eyes see it from far away.

39:30  Its young ones feed on blood. It is found wherever there are dead bodies."