Thematic Bible

Job 39:1

Know you the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or can you mark when the hinds do calve?

Job 39:2

Can you number the months that they fulfill? or know you the time when they bring forth?

Job 39:3

They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their offspring.

Job 39:4

Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth, and return not unto them.

Job 39:5

Who has let the wild donkey go free? or who has loosed the bonds of the wild donkey?

Job 39:6

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

Job 39:7

He scorns the multitude of the city, neither regards he the shouts of the driver.

Job 39:8

The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

Job 39:9

Will the wild ox be willing to serve you, or abide by your crib?

Job 39:10

Can you bind the wild ox with ropes in the furrow? or will he plow the valleys behind you?

Job 39:11

Will you trust him, because his strength is great? or will you leave your labor to him?

Job 39:12

Will you believe him, that he will bring home your grain, and gather it into your barn?

Job 39:13

Gave you the proud wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

Job 39:14

Which leaves her eggs in the earth, and warms them in dust,

Job 39:15

And forgets that the foot may crush them, or that a wild beast may break them.

Job 39:16

She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain without concern;

Job 39:17

Because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

Job 39:18

When she lifts up herself high, she scorns the horse and his rider.

Job 39:19

Have you given the horse strength? have you clothed his neck with thunder?

Job 39:20

Can you make him afraid like a grasshopper? the majesty of his snorting is terrible.

Job 39:21

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

Job 39:22

He mocks at fear, and is not frightened; neither turns he back from the sword.

Job 39:23

The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the javelin.

Job 39:24

He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage: neither does he halt at the sound of the trumpet.

Job 39:25

He says among the trumpets, Aha; and he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

Job 39:26

Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?

Job 39:27

Does the eagle mount up at your command, and make her nest on high?

Job 39:28

She dwells and abides on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the stronghold.

Job 39:29

From there she seeks the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.

Job 39:30

Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.