Read Job 39

World English Bible · 30 verses

1. ¹ “Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² Can you count the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ They bow themselves. They bear their young. They end their labor pains.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go out, and don’t return again.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ “Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ The range of the mountains is his pasture. He searches after every green thing.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ “Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the feathers and plumage of love?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ “Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
21. ²¹ He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
22. ²² He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn back from the sword.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
23. ²³ The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
24. ²⁴ He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
25. ²⁵ As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
26. ²⁶ “Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
27. ²⁷ Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
28. ²⁸ On the cliff he dwells and makes his home, on the point of the cliff and the stronghold.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
29. ²⁹ From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
30. ³⁰ His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org