Job 39 — T4T

Yahweh continued his reply to Job

39Verse 1“Job, do you know at what time/season of the year the female mountain goats give birth?Have you watched the wild deer while their fawns were being born?^{Verse 2}Do you know how many months pass from the time they become pregnant until their fawns are born?
^{Verse 3}When they give birth, they crouch downso that the fawns do not get hurt by falling to the ground when they are born.^{Verse 4}The young fawns grow up in the open fields,and then they leave their mothers and do not return to them again.^{Verse 5}“Who allows the wild donkeys to go wherever they want [DOU]?
^{Verse 6}I am the one who put them in the desert,in places where grass does not grow.^{Verse 7}They do not like the noise in the cities;in the desert they do not have to listen to the shouts of those who force donkeys to work.^{Verse 8}They go to the hills to find food;there they search for grass to eat.^{Verse 9}:Will a wild ox agree to work for you?Will it allow you to keep it penned up at night in the place where you put feed for your animals?^{Verse 10}And can you fasten it with a ropeso that it will plow furrows/trenches in your fields?^{Verse 11}Since it is very strong, can you trust it to work for you?Can you go away after you tell it what work it should do and assume that it will do that work?^{Verse 12}Can you rely on it to come back from the field,bringing your grain to the place where you thresh it?^{Verse 13}“Think also about the ostriches. They joyfully flap their wings,but they do not have wing feathers that enable them to fly like storks do.^{Verse 14}Ostriches lay their eggs on top of the ground and then walk away,leaving the eggs to be warmed in the sand.^{Verse 15}Ostriches do not worry that some wild animal may step on the eggs and crush them [DOU].
^{Verse 16}Ostriches act cruelly towards their chicks;they act as though the chicks belonged to some other ostrich.They are not concerned if their chicks die,and so the laying of the eggs was in vain.^{Verse 17}That is because I did not allow ostriches to be wise.I did not enable them to be intelligent.^{Verse 18}But, when they get up and begin to run,they scornfully laugh at horses with their riders
because the horses cannot run as fast as the ostriches!^{Verse 19}And think about horses. Job, are you the one who caused horses to be strong?Are you the one who put flowing ◄manes/long hair► on their necks?^{Verse 20}Are you the one who enabled them to leap forward like locusts?When they ◄snort/blow loudly through their noses►, they cause people to be afraid.^{Verse 21}They paw the ground, rejoicing about being very strong,as they prepare to rush into a battle.^{Verse 22}It is as if they laugh at the thought of being afraid. They are not afraid of anything!They do not run away when the soldiers in the battle are fighting each other with swords.^{Verse 23}The quivers containing the riders’ arrows rattle against the horses’ sides,and the spears and javelins flash in the light of the sun.^{Verse 24}The horses paw the ground fiercely/excitedly, wanting the battle to begin,and they rush into the battle when the trumpet is blown.^{Verse 25}They neigh joyfully when they hear someone blowing the trumpet.They can smell a battle even when they are far away,
and they understand what it means when the commanders shout their commands to their soldiers.^{Verse 26}“And think about big birds. Are you the one who enabled hawks to spread their wingsand fly to the south for the winter?^{Verse 27}Do eagles fly high up into the cliffs to make their nestsbecause you commanded them to do that?^{Verse 28}They live in holes in those cliffs.They are safe in those high pointed rocks because no animals can reach them there.^{Verse 29}As they watch carefully from there,they see far away the animals that they can kill (OR, dead bodies of animals).^{Verse 30}After an eagle kills an animal,the baby eagles drink the blood of that animal.”