Thematic Bible

Job 39:1

"Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does?

Job 39:2

Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth,

Job 39:3

when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young?

Job 39:4

Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them.

Job 39:5

"Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,

Job 39:6

to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place?

Job 39:7

He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver.

Job 39:8

He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

Job 39:9

"Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your manger?

Job 39:10

Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?

Job 39:11

Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor?

Job 39:12

Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?

Job 39:13

"The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love?

Job 39:14

For she leaves her eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground,

Job 39:15

forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them.

Job 39:16

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

because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding.

Job 39:18

When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider.

Job 39:19

"Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane?

Job 39:20

Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrifying.

Job 39:21

He paws in the valley and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons.

Job 39:22

He laughs at fear and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword.

Job 39:23

Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear, and the javelin.

Job 39:24

With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

Job 39:25

When the trumpet sounds, he says 'Aha!' He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

Job 39:26

"Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south?

Job 39:27

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

Job 39:28

On the rock he dwells and makes his home, on the rocky crag and stronghold.

Job 39:29

From there he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it from far away.

Job 39:30

His young ones suck up blood, and where the slain are, there is he."