NHEB - Job - 39

39:1  "Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

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

39:3  They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, they end their labor pains.

39:4  Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go forth, and do not return again.

39:5  "Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

39:6  Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

39:7  He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.

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

39:9  "Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

39:10  Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?

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

39:12  Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?

39:13  "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

39:14  For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,

39:15  and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.

39:16  She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,

39:17  because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

39:18  When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.

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

39:20  Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.

39:21  He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.

39:22  He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn back from the sword.

39:23  The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.

39:24  He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

39:25  As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, 'Aha!' He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

39:26  "Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?

39:27  Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?

39:28  On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.

39:29  From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.

39:30  His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is."