LITV - Job - 39

39:1  Do you know the time when the wild goats of the rock bear? Do you observe the calving of deer?

39:2  Can you tell the months they fulfill; or do you know the time for their bearing,

39:3  when they crouch and bring forth; they send out their pangs?

39:4  Their young ones are strong; they multiply with grain; they go forth and do not return to them.

39:5  Who has sent out the wild ass free, or who has untied the bands of the wild ass?

39:6  To whom I have assigned the desert for his home, and the salt land for his dwellings?

39:7  He laughs at the turmoil of the city; he does not hear the driver's shouts;

39:8  he seeks out mountains for his pasture; and he searches after every green thing.

39:9  Will the wild ox consent to be your servant, or spend the night by your feed-trough?

39:10  Can you tie the wild ox in the furrow with his 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  Or will you have faith in him, that he will return your seed, and gather it to your grain-floor?

39:13  The wing of the ostriches flap joyously, though not like the stork's pinions for flight.

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

39:15  and forgets that a foot may crush it, or the beast of the field may trample it;

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

39:17  because God has made her forget wisdom; and He has not given to her a share in understanding.

39:18  At the time she lifts up on high, she laughs at the horse and its rider.

39:19  Have you given the horse its strength: have you clothed its neck with a mane

39:20  Can you make him leap like a locust; the majesty of his snorting is terrifying?

39:21  They paw in the valley and he rejoices in his strength; he goes out to meet the 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 flashing spear and the javelin.

39:24  He swallows the ground with quivering and trembling, and he does not stand still for the sound of the ram's horn.

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

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

39:27  Or does the eagle mount up at your mouth, and make his nest on high?

39:28  He lives and stays on the rock, on the crag of the rock and the stronghold.

39:29  From there he seeks food; his eyes see afar off.

39:30  And his young brood also sucks up blood; and where the pierced ones are , there he is .