Job 39
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39:1
Do you know the time when the mountain
agoats bring forth?
Can you mark
the time when the
bhinds calve?
Job 39
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39:2
Can you number the months that they must fulfill?
Or do you know the time when they bring forth?
Job 39
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39:3
They crouch down; they give birth to their young ones;
They send forth their offspring.
Job 39
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39:4
Their young become strong; they grow up in the open field;
They go forth and do not return to them.
Job 39
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39:5
Who has sent out the
awild ass free?
Or who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,
Job 39
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39:6
Whose home I have made the wilderness,
And the salt land, his dwelling place?
Job 39
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39:7
He scorns the tumult of the city;
He does not hear the shouts of the driver.
Job 39
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39:8
He searches out the mountains for his pasture
And seeks after every green thing.
Job 39
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39:9
Will the
awild ox be willing to serve you
Or spend the night by your manger?
Job 39
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39:10
Can you bind the wild ox to the furrows with his ropes?
Or will he plow the valleys behind you?
Job 39
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39:11
Will you trust in him because his strength is great?
Or will you leave your labor to him?
Job 39
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39:12
Will you have confidence in him that he will bring in your seed
And gather
your grain to your threshing floor?
Job 39
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39:13
The wings of the
aostrich flap joyously:
Are they the pinion and plumage of lovingkindness?
Job 39
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39:14
For she leaves her eggs on the earth
And warms them in the dust.
Job 39
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39:15
And she forgets that a foot may crush them
Or that an animal of the field may trample them.
Job 39
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39:16
She is hard with her children, as if they were not hers;
Though her labor may be in vain,
she has no fear;
Job 39
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39:17
Because God has caused her to forget wisdom
And has not appointed understanding to her.
Job 39
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39:18
At that time when she lifts herself up on high,
She scorns the horse and its rider.
Job 39
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39:19
Have you given the
ahorse his might?
Have you clothed his neck with the quivering mane?
Job 39
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39:20
Have you made him to leap like a locust?
His majestic snorting is terrible.
Job 39
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39:21
1He paws in the valley,
And he rejoices in
his strength;
He goes forth to meet weapons.
Job 39
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39:22
He laughs at fear and is not dismayed,
And he does not turn back from the sword.
Job 39
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39:23
A quiver
of arrows rattles against him,
The flashing spear and the javelin.
Job 39
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39:24
With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground,
And he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
Job 39
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39:25
As often as the trumpet
sounds, he says, Aha!
And from afar he smells the battle,
The thundering of captains and the shouting.
Job 39
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39:26
Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars,
Stretching his wings to the south?
Job 39
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39:27
Is it at your command that the
aeagle mounts up
And makes his nest on high?
Job 39
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39:28
On the cliff he dwells and makes his lodging,
Upon the point of the cliff and the stronghold.
Job 39
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39:29
From there he spies out food;
His eyes gaze on
it from afar.
Job 39
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39:30
And his young ones suck up the blood;
And where the slain are,
athere he is.
