Job 39 — LXXSB
39Verse 1Say if you know the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock, and if you have marked the calving of the hinds:Verse 2and if you have have numbered the full months of their being with young, and if you have relieved their pangs:Verse 3and have reared their young without fear; and will you loosen their pangs?Verse 4Their young will break forth; they will be multiplied with offspring: their young will go forth, and will not return to them.Verse 5And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? and who loosed his bands?Verse 6whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, and the salt land his coverts.Verse 7He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer.Verse 8He will survey the mountains as his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing.Verse 9And will the unicorn be willing to serve you, or to lie down at your manger?Verse 10And will you bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plough furrows for you in the plain?Verse 11And do you trust him, because his strength is great? and will you commit your works to him?Verse 12And will you believe that he will return to you your seed, and bring it in to your threshing floor?Verse 13The peacock has a beautiful wing: if the stork and the ostrich conceive, it is worthy of notice,Verse 14for the ostrich will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust,Verse 15and has forgotten that the foot will scatter them, and the wild beasts of the field trample them.Verse 16She has hardened herself against her young ones, as though she bereaved not herself: she labours in vain without fear.Verse 17For God has withholden wisdom from her, and not given her a portion in understanding.Verse 18In her season she will lift herself on high; she will scorn the horse and his rider.Verse 19Have you invested the horse with strength, and clothed his neck with terror?Verse 20And have you clad him in perfect armour, and made his breast glorious with courage?Verse 21He paws exulting in the plain, and goes forth in strength into the plain.Verse 22He laughs to scorn a king as he meets him, and will by no means turn back from the sword.Verse 23The bow and sword resound against him; and his rage will swallow up the ground:Verse 24and he will not believe until the trumpet sounds.Verse 25And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! and afar off he smells the war with prancing and neighing.Verse 26And does the hawk remain steady by your wisdom, having spread out her wings unmoved, looking towards the region of the south?Verse 27And does the eagle rise at your command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest,Verse 28on a crag of a rock, and in a secret place?Verse 29Thence he seeks food, his eyes observe from far.Verse 30And his young ones roll themselves in blood, and wherever the carcasses may be, immediately they are found.Verse 31And the Lord God answered Job, and said,Verse 32Will any one pervert judgement with the Mighty One? and he that reproves God, let him return it for answer.Verse 33And Job answered and said to the Lord,Verse 34Why do I yet plead? being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these arguments? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.Verse 35I have spoken once; but I will not do so a second time.