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title="Job 38">◄</a> Job 39 <a href="../job/40.htm" title="Job 40">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/job/39.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?</span><br /><span class="indent">Do you observe the calving of the does?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Can you number the months that they fulfill,</span><br /><span class="indent">and do you know the time when they give birth,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">when they crouch, bring forth their offspring,</span><br /><span class="indent">and are delivered of their young?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open;</span><br /><span class="indent">they go out and do not return to them.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Who has let the wild donkey go free?</span><br /><span class="indent">Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">to whom I have given the arid plain for his home</span><br /><span class="indent">and the salt land for his dwelling place?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He scorns the tumult of the city;</span><br /><span class="indent">he hears not the shouts of the driver.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He ranges the mountains as his pasture,</span><br /><span class="indent">and he searches after every green thing.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Is the wild ox willing to serve you?</span><br /><span class="indent">Will he spend the night at your manger?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes,</span><br /><span class="indent">or will he harrow the valleys after you?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Will you depend on him because his strength is great,</span><br /><span class="indent">and will you leave to him your labor?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain</span><br /><span class="indent">and gather it to your threshing floor?</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,</span><br /><span class="indent">but are they the pinions and plumage of love?<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain">a</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For she leaves her eggs to the earth</span><br /><span class="indent">and lets them be warmed on the ground,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">forgetting that a foot may crush them</span><br /><span class="indent">and that the wild beast may trample them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers;</span><br /><span class="indent">though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">because God has made her forget wisdom</span><br /><span class="indent">and given her no share in understanding.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When she rouses herself to flee,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain">b</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">she laughs at the horse and his rider.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Do you give the horse his might?</span><br /><span class="indent">Do you clothe his neck with a mane?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Do you make him leap like the locust?</span><br /><span class="indent">His majestic snorting is terrifying.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He paws<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew They paw">c</a></sup></span> in the valley and exults in his strength;</span><br /><span class="indent">he goes out to meet the weapons.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He laughs at fear and is not dismayed;</span><br /><span class="indent">he does not turn back from the sword.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Upon him rattle the quiver,</span><br /><span class="indent">the flashing spear, and the javelin.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground;</span><br /><span class="indent">he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When the trumpet sounds, he says ‘Aha!’</span><br /><span class="indent">He smells the battle from afar,</span><br /><span class="indent">the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars</span><br /><span class="indent">and spreads his wings toward the south?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up</span><br /><span class="indent">and makes his nest on high?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">On the rock he dwells and makes his home,</span><br /><span class="indent">on the rocky crag and stronghold.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">From there he spies out the prey;</span><br /><span class="indent">his eyes behold it from far away.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His young ones suck up blood,</span><br /><span class="indent">and where the slain are, there is he.”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> Hebrew <i>They paw</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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