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| The Book of Job 39 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Douay-Rheims Version Online Bible (DRV) | ||||||||||||||||
| Job 39:1 | Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth among the rocks, or hast thou observed the hinds when they fawn? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:2 | Hast thou numbered the months of their conceiving, or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:3 | They bow themselves to bring forth young, and they cast them, and send forth roarings. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:4 | Their young are weaned and go to feed : they go forth, and return not to them. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:5 | Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bonds? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:6 | To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:7 | He scorneth the multitude of the city, he heareth not the cry of the driver. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:8 | He looketh round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh for every green thing. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:9 | Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at thy crib? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:10 | Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with thy thong to plough, or will he break the clods of the valleys after thee? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:11 | Wilt thou have confidence in his great strength, and leave thy labours to him? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:12 | Wilt thou trust him that he will render thee the seed, and gather it into thy barnfloor? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:13 | The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:14 | When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:15 | She forgetteth that the foot may tread upon them, or that the beasts of the field may break them. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:16 | She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:17 | For God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he given her understanding. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:18 | When time shall be, she setteth up her wings on high : she scorneth the horse and his rider. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:19 | Wilt thou give strength to the horse, or clothe his neck with neighing? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:20 | Wilt thou lift him up like the locusts? the glory of his nostrils is terror. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:21 | He breaketh up the earth with his hoof, he pranceth boldly, he goeth forward to meet armed men. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:22 | He despiseth fear, he turneth not his back to the sword, | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:23 | Above him shall the quiver rattle, the spear and shield shall glitter. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:24 | Chasing and raging he swalloweth the ground, neither doth he make account when the noise of the trumpet soundeth. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:25 | When he heareth the trumpet he saith : Ha, ha : he smelleth the battle afar off, the encouraging of the captains, and the shouting of the army. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:26 | Doth the hawk wax feathered by thy wisdom, spreading her wings to the south? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:27 | Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest in high places? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:28 | She abideth among the rocks, and dwelleth among cragged flints, and stony hills, where there is no access. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:29 | From thence she looketh for the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:30 | Her young ones shall suck up blood : and wheresoever the carcass shall be, she is immediately there. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:31 | And the Lord went on, and said to Job : | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:32 | Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely he that reproveth God, ought to answer him. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:33 | Then Job answered the Lord, and said : | |||||||||||||||
| Job 39:34 | One thing I have spoken, which I wish I had not said : and another, to which I will add no more. | |||||||||||||||
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