Thematic Bible
Job 39:1 (show verse)
"Do you know when the mountain goat gives birth? Do you watch the doe as it calves its young?
Job 39:2 (show verse)
Can you count the months of their gestation? Do you know the time when they give birth,
Job 39:3 (show verse)
when they crouch down to give birth to their offspring, and let go of their birth pangs?
Job 39:4 (show verse)
Their young are strong; they grow up in the open field; then they go off and don't return to them."
Job 39:5 (show verse)
"Who sets the wild donkey free? Who loosens the bonds of the wild donkey
Job 39:6 (show verse)
to whom I've given the Arabah for a home; the salt plain for his dwelling place?
Job 39:7 (show verse)
He despises city noises; he ignores the shouts of the driver.
Job 39:8 (show verse)
He ranges the mountains that are his pasture to search for anything green.
Job 39:9 (show verse)
Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he sleep at night near your feeding trough?
Job 39:10 (show verse)
Can you bind the ox to plow a furrow with a rope? Will he harrow after you in the valley?
Job 39:11 (show verse)
Will you trust him because of his great strength and entrust your labor to him?
Job 39:12 (show verse)
Will you trust him that he'll bring in your grain, and gather it to your threshing floor?"
Job 39:13 (show verse)
"The wings of the ostrich flap joyously, but aren't its pinions and feathers like the stork?
Job 39:14 (show verse)
She abandons her eggs on the ground and lets them be warmed in the sand,
Job 39:15 (show verse)
but she forgets that a foot might crush them or any wild animal might trample them.
Job 39:16 (show verse)
She mistreats her young as though they're not hers, and she has no fear that her labor may be in vain,
Job 39:17 (show verse)
because God didn't grant her wisdom and never gave her understanding.
Job 39:18 (show verse)
And yet when she gets ready to run, she laughs at the horse and its rider."
Job 39:19 (show verse)
Do you instill the horse with strength? Do you clothe its neck with a mane?
Job 39:20 (show verse)
Can you make him leap like the locust, and make the splendor of his snorting terrifying?
Job 39:21 (show verse)
He paws the ground in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he goes out to face weapons.
Job 39:22 (show verse)
He scoffs at fear and is never scared; he never retreats from a sword.
Job 39:23 (show verse)
A quiver of arrows rattles against his side, along with a flashing spear and a lance.
Job 39:24 (show verse)
Leaping in his excitement, he takes in the ground; he cannot stand still when the trumpets sound!
Job 39:25 (show verse)
When the trumpet blasts he'll neigh, "Aha! Aha!' From a distance he can sense war, the war cry of generals, and their shouting."
Job 39:26 (show verse)
"Is it by your understanding that the hawk flies, spreading its wings toward the south?
Job 39:27 (show verse)
Does the eagle soar high at your command and build its nest on the highest crags?
Job 39:28 (show verse)
He dwells on the crags where he makes his home, there on the rocky crag is his stronghold.
Job 39:29 (show verse)
From there he searches for prey, and his eyes recognize it from a distance.
Job 39:30 (show verse)
His young ones feast on blood; he'll be found wherever there's a carcass."