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