Thematic Bible
Job 39:1 (show verse)
"Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does?
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, bring forth 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 out 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)
to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place?
Job 39:7 (show verse)
He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver.
Job 39:8 (show verse)
He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
Job 39:9 (show verse)
"Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your manger?
Job 39:10 (show verse)
Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?
Job 39:11 (show verse)
Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor?
Job 39:12 (show verse)
Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
Job 39:13 (show verse)
"The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love?
Job 39:14 (show verse)
For she leaves her eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground,
Job 39:15 (show verse)
forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them.
Job 39:16 (show verse)
She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,
Job 39:17 (show verse)
because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding.
Job 39:18 (show verse)
When she rouses herself to flee, 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 terrifying.
Job 39:21 (show verse)
He paws in the valley and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons.
Job 39:22 (show verse)
He laughs at fear and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword.
Job 39:23 (show verse)
Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear, and the javelin.
Job 39:24 (show verse)
With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
Job 39:25 (show verse)
When the trumpet sounds, he says 'Aha!' He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Job 39:26 (show verse)
"Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south?
Job 39:27 (show verse)
Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high?
Job 39:28 (show verse)
On the rock he dwells and makes his home, on the rocky crag and stronghold.
Job 39:29 (show verse)
From there he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it from far away.
Job 39:30 (show verse)
His young ones suck up blood, and where the slain are, there is he."