Job 39 — BBE

39Verse 1Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?^{Verse 2}Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?^{Verse 3}They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.^{Verse 4}Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.^{Verse 5}Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?^{Verse 6}To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.^{Verse 7}He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;^{Verse 8}He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.^{Verse 9}Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?^{Verse 10}Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?^{Verse 11}Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?^{Verse 12}Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?^{Verse 13}Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,^{Verse 14}That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,^{Verse 15}Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?^{Verse 16}She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.^{Verse 17}For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.^{Verse 18}When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.^{Verse 19}Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?^{Verse 20}Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?^{Verse 21}He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.^{Verse 22}In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.^{Verse 23}The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow.^{Verse 24}Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;^{Verse 25}When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries.^{Verse 26}Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?^{Verse 27}Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?^{Verse 28}On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place.^{Verse 29}From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.^{Verse 30}His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.