39Job 39

1Do you know when mountain goats are born? Have you watched wild deer give birth?Select Job 39:1

2Do you know how long they carry their young? Do you know the time for their birth?Select Job 39:2

3Do you know when they will crouch down and bring their young into the world?Select Job 39:3

4In the wilds their young grow strong; they go away and don't come back.Select Job 39:4

5Who gave the wild donkeys their freedom? Who turned them loose and let them roam?Select Job 39:5

6I gave them the desert to be their home, and let them live on the salt plains.Select Job 39:6

7They keep far away from the noisy cities, and no one can tame them and make them work.Select Job 39:7

8The mountains are the pastures where they feed, where they search for anything green to eat.Select Job 39:8

9Will a wild ox work for you? Is he willing to spend the night in your stable?Select Job 39:9

10Can you hold one with a rope and make him plow? Or make him pull a harrow in your fields?Select Job 39:10

11Can you rely on his great strength and expect him to do your heavy work?Select Job 39:11

12Do you expect him to bring in your harvest and gather the grain from your threshing place?Select Job 39:12

13How fast the wings of an ostrich beat! But no ostrich can fly like a stork.Select Job 39:13

14The ostrich leaves her eggs on the ground for the heat in the soil to warm them.Select Job 39:14

15She is unaware that a foot may crush them or a wild animal break them.Select Job 39:15

16She acts as if the eggs were not hers, and is unconcerned that her efforts were wasted.Select Job 39:16

17It was I who made her foolish and did not give her wisdom.Select Job 39:17

18But when she begins to run, she can laugh at any horse and rider.Select Job 39:18

19Was it you, Job, who made horses so strong and gave them their flowing manes?Select Job 39:19

20Did you make them leap like locusts and frighten people with their snorting?Select Job 39:20

21They eagerly paw the ground in the valley; they rush into battle with all their strength.Select Job 39:21

22They do not know the meaning of fear, and no sword can turn them back.Select Job 39:22

23The weapons which their riders carry rattle and flash in the sun.Select Job 39:23

24Trembling with excitement, the horses race ahead; when the trumpet blows, they can't stand still.Select Job 39:24

25At each blast of the trumpet they snort; they can smell a battle before they get near, and they hear the officers shouting commands.Select Job 39:25

26Does a hawk learn from you how to fly when it spreads its wings toward the south?Select Job 39:26

27Does an eagle wait for your command to build its nest high in the mountains?Select Job 39:27

28It makes its home on the highest rocks and makes the sharp peaks its fortress.Select Job 39:28

29From there it watches near and far for something to kill and eat.Select Job 39:29

30Around dead bodies the eagles gather, and the young eagles drink the blood.Select Job 39:30