Thematic Bible
Job 39:1 (show verse)
Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth their young among the stony rocks? Or layest thou wait when the hinds use to fawn?
Job 39:2 (show verse)
Reckonest thou the months after they engender, that thou knowest the time of their bearing?
Job 39:3 (show verse)
Or when they lie down, when they cast their young ones, and when they are delivered of their travail and pain?
Job 39:4 (show verse)
How their young ones grow up and wax great through good feeding?
Job 39:5 (show verse)
Who letteth the wild ass go free, or who looseth the bonds of the mule?
Job 39:6 (show verse)
Unto whom I have given the wilderness to be their house, and the untilled land to be their dwelling place:
Job 39:7 (show verse)
That they may give no force for the multitude of people in the cities, neither regard the crying of the driver,
Job 39:8 (show verse)
but seek their pasture about the mountains and follow the green grass.
Job 39:9 (show verse)
Will the unicorn be so tame as to do the service, or to abide still by thy crib?
Job 39:10 (show verse)
Canst thou bind the yoke about him in thy furrows, to make him plow after thee in the valleys?
Job 39:11 (show verse)
Mayest thou trust him because he is strong, or commit thy labour unto him?
Job 39:12 (show verse)
Mayest thou believe him, that he will bring home thy corn, or to carry anything unto thy barn?
Job 39:13 (show verse)
"Gavest thou the fair wings unto the peacocks, or wings and feathers unto the Ostrich?
Job 39:14 (show verse)
For she leaveth her eggs upon the ground, and heateth them in the dust.
Job 39:15 (show verse)
She remembereth not that they might be trodden with feet or broken with some wild beast.
Job 39:16 (show verse)
So hard is she to her young ones, as though they were not hers, and laboureth in vain without any fear.
Job 39:17 (show verse)
And that because God hath taken wisdom from her, and hath not given her understanding.
Job 39:18 (show verse)
When her time is, she flyeth up on high, and careth neither for horse nor man.
Job 39:19 (show verse)
"Hast thou given the horse his strength? Or learned him to bow down his neck with fear:
Job 39:20 (show verse)
that he letteth himself be driven forth like a grasshopper, whereas the stout neighing that he maketh, is fearful?
Job 39:21 (show verse)
He breaketh the ground with the hooves of his feet cheerfully in his strength, and runneth to meet the harness men.
Job 39:22 (show verse)
He layeth aside all fear, his stomach is not abated, neither starteth he a back for any sword.
Job 39:23 (show verse)
Though the quivers rattle upon him, though the spear and shield glister;
Job 39:24 (show verse)
yet rusheth he in fearlessly, and beateth upon the ground. He feareth not the noise of the trumpets,
Job 39:25 (show verse)
but as soon as he heareth the shawmes blow, 'Tush,' sayeth he; for he smelleth the battle afar off, the noise, the Captains and the shouting.
Job 39:26 (show verse)
"Cometh it through thy wisdom, that the Goshawk flyeth toward the South?
Job 39:27 (show verse)
Doth the Eagle mount up, and make his nest on high, at thy commandment?
Job 39:28 (show verse)
He abideth in the stony rocks, and upon the high tops of hard mountains, where no man can come.
Job 39:29 (show verse)
From thence may he behold his pray, and look far about with his eyes.
Job 39:30 (show verse)
His young ones are fed with blood, and where any dead body lieth, there is he immediately."