Job 39 — ULB

39Verse 1Do you know at what time the wild goats in the rocks bear their young?
Can you watch when the deer are having their fawns?
^{Verse 2}Can you count the months that they gestate?
Do you know the time when they bear their young?
^{Verse 3}They crouch down and birth their young,
and then they finish their labor pains.
^{Verse 4}Their young ones become strong and grow up in the open fields;
they go out and do not come back again.^{Verse 5}Who let the wild donkey go free?
Who has untied the bonds of the swift donkey,
^{Verse 6}whose home I have made in the Arabah,
his house in the salt land?
^{Verse 7}He laughs in scorn at the noises in the city;
he does not hear the driver's shouts.
^{Verse 8}He roams over the mountains as his pastures;
there he looks for every green plant to eat.
^{Verse 9}Will the wild ox be happy to serve you?
Will he consent to stay by your manger?
^{Verse 10}Can you use ropes to hold the wild ox in the furrows?
Will he harrow the valleys as he follows after you?
^{Verse 11}Will you trust him because his strength is great?
Will you leave your work to him to do?
^{Verse 12}Will you depend on him to bring your grain home,
to gather the grain for your threshing floor?^{Verse 13}The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,
but are they the pinions and plumage of love?
^{Verse 14}For she leaves her eggs on the earth,
and she lets them keep warm in the dust;
^{Verse 15}she forgets that a foot might crush them
or that a wild beast might trample them.
^{Verse 16}She deals roughly with her young ones as if they were not hers;
she does not fear that her labor might have been in vain,
^{Verse 17}because God has deprived her of wisdom
and has not given her any understanding.
^{Verse 18}When she runs swiftly,
she laughs in scorn at the horse and its rider.^{Verse 19}Have you given the horse his strength?
Did you clothe his neck with his flowing mane?
^{Verse 20}Have you ever made him jump like a locust?
The majesty of his snorting is fearsome.
^{Verse 21}He paws in might and rejoices in his strength;
he rushes out to meet the weapons.
^{Verse 22}He mocks fear and is not dismayed;
he does not turn back from the sword.
^{Verse 23}The quiver rattles against his flank,
along with the flashing spear and the javelin.
^{Verse 24}He swallows up ground with fierceness and rage;
at the trumpet's sound, he cannot stand in one place.
^{Verse 25}Whenever the trumpet sounds, he says, 'Aha!'
He smells the battle from far away—
the thunderous shouts of the commanders and the outcries.^{Verse 26}Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars,
that he stretches out his wings for the south?
^{Verse 27}Is it at your orders that the eagle mounts up
and makes his nest in high places?
^{Verse 28}He lives on cliffs and makes his home
on the peaks of cliffs, a stronghold.
^{Verse 29}From there he searches for victims;
his eyes see them from very far away.
^{Verse 30}His young also drink up blood;
where killed people are, there he is.”