Job 39 NKJV

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valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/job/39.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>God Continues to Challenge Job</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Job-39-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Do you know the time when the wild mountain goats bear young?</span></span><br /><span class="text Job-39-1"><i>Or</i> can you mark when the deer gives birth?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Can you number the months <i>that</i> they fulfill?</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-2">Or do you know the time when they bear young?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They bow down,</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-3">They bring forth their young,</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-3">They deliver their <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>offspring.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Their young ones are healthy,</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-4">They grow strong with grain;</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-4">They depart and do not return to them.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Who set the wild donkey free?</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-5">Who loosed the bonds of the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>onager,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Whose home I have made the wilderness,</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-6">And the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>barren land his dwelling?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He scorns the tumult of the city;</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-7">He does not heed the shouts of the driver.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The range of the mountains <i>is</i> his pasture,</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-8">And he searches after every green thing.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Will the wild ox be willing to serve you?</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-9">Will he bed by your manger?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Can you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes?</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-10">Or will he plow the valleys behind you?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Will you trust him because his strength <i>is</i> great?</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-11">Or will you leave your labor to him?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Will you trust him to bring home your <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>grain,</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-12">And gather it to your threshing floor?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-13">But are her wings and pinions <i>like the</i> kindly stork’s?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For she leaves her eggs on the ground,</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-14">And warms them in the dust;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>She forgets that a foot may crush them,</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-15">Or that a wild beast may break them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>She treats her young harshly, as though <i>they were</i> not hers;</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-16">Her labor is in vain, without <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>concern,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Because God deprived her of wisdom,</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-17">And did not endow her with understanding.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When she lifts herself on high,</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-18">She scorns the horse and its rider.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Have you given the horse strength?</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-19">Have you clothed his neck with <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>thunder?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Can you <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>frighten him like a locust?</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-20">His majestic snorting strikes terror.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>He paws in the valley, and rejoices in <i>his</i> strength;</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-21">He gallops into the clash of arms.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He mocks at fear, and is not frightened;</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-22">Nor does he turn back from the sword.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The quiver rattles against him,</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-23">The glittering spear and javelin.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He devours the distance with fierceness and rage;</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-24">Nor does he come to a halt because the trumpet <i>has</i> sounded.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>At <i>the blast of</i> the trumpet he says, ‘Aha!’</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-25">He smells the battle from afar,</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-25">The thunder of captains and shouting.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“Does the hawk fly by your wisdom,</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-26"><i>And</i> spread its wings toward the south?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Does the eagle mount up at your command,</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-27">And make its nest on high?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>On the rock it dwells and resides,</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-28">On the crag of the rock and the stronghold.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>From there it spies out the prey;</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-29">Its eyes observe from afar.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/39-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Its young ones suck up blood;</span><br /><span class="text Job-39-30">And where the slain <i>are,</i> there it <i>is.</i>”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-13838a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 39:3">Job 39:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>pangs</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13840b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 39:5">Job 39:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'>A species of wild donkey</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13841c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 39:6">Job 39:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>salt land</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13847d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 39:12">Job 39:12</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>seed</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13851e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 39:16">Job 39:16</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>fear</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13854f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 39:19">Job 39:19</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>a mane</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13855g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 39:20">Job 39:20</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>make him spring</i></span></li></ol></div> 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