Thematic Bible
Job 39:1 (show verse)
Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the deer?
Job 39:2 (show verse)
Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth,
Job 39:3 (show verse)
when they crouch to give birth to their offspring, and are delivered of their young?
Job 39:4 (show verse)
Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth, and do not return to them.
Job 39:5 (show verse)
Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey?
Job 39:6 (show verse)
Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwelling?
Job 39:7 (show verse)
He scorns the tumult of the city. He does not heed the shouts of the driver.
Job 39:8 (show verse)
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
Job 39:9 (show verse)
Will the wild ox be willing to serve you? Will he bed by your manger?
Job 39:10 (show verse)
Can you bind the wild bull in the furrow with ropes? Or will he plow the valleys behind you?
Job 39:11 (show verse)
Will you rely on him for his great strength? Will you leave your heavy work to him?
Job 39:12 (show verse)
Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
Job 39:13 (show verse)
The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but they cannot compare with the pinions and feathers of the stork.
Job 39:14 (show verse)
She lays her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.
Job 39:15 (show verse)
She is unaware that a foot may crush them, that some wild animal may trample them.
Job 39:16 (show verse)
She treats her young cruelly, as if they were not hers. Even if her labor is in vain, she is unconcerned.
Job 39:17 (show verse)
This is because God has made her forget wisdom. He has not given her a share of understanding.
Job 39:18 (show verse)
When she lifts herself on high, she laughs at the horse and his rider.
Job 39:19 (show verse)
Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane?
Job 39:20 (show verse)
Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.
Job 39:21 (show verse)
It paws in strength and finds joy in its power. It charges into battle.
Job 39:22 (show verse)
It laughs at fear, is afraid of nothing, and does not back away from swords.
Job 39:23 (show verse)
A quiver of arrows rattles on it along with the flashing spear and javelin.
Job 39:24 (show verse)
Anxious and excited, the horse eats up the ground and does not trust the sound of the ram's horn.
Job 39:25 (show verse)
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.
Job 39:26 (show verse)
Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and spreads its wings toward the south?
Job 39:27 (show verse)
Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes its nest on high?
Job 39:28 (show verse)
It lives on the rock and makes its home in the fastness of the rocky crag.
Job 39:29 (show verse)
It spies the pray from there. Its eyes see it from far away.
Job 39:30 (show verse)
Its young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there it is.