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Job 39 DBY — Job 39

1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? dost thou mark the calving of the hinds? DBY — Job 39:1

2 Dost thou number the months that they fulfil? and knowest thou the time when they bring forth? DBY — Job 39:2

3 They bow themselves, they give birth to their young ones, they cast out their pains; DBY — Job 39:3

4 Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go forth, and return not unto them. DBY — Job 39:4

5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager, DBY — Job 39:5

6 Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings? DBY — Job 39:6

7 He laugheth at the tumult of the city, and heareth not the shouts of the driver; DBY — Job 39:7

8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. DBY — Job 39:8

9 Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib? DBY — Job 39:9

10 Canst thou bind the buffalo with his cord in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? DBY — Job 39:10

11 Wilt thou put confidence in him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou leave thy labour to him? DBY — Job 39:11

12 Wilt thou trust him to bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor? DBY — Job 39:12

13 The wing of the ostrich beats joyously But is it the stork’s pinion and plumage? DBY — Job 39:13

14 For she leaveth her eggs to the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, DBY — Job 39:14

15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may trample them. DBY — Job 39:15

16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern. DBY — Job 39:16

17 For God hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding. DBY — Job 39:17

18 What time she lasheth herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider. DBY — Job 39:18

19 Hast thou given strength to the horse? hast thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane? DBY — Job 39:19

20 Dost thou make him to leap as a locust? His majestic snorting is terrible. DBY — Job 39:20

21 He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in [his] strength; he goeth forth to meet the armed host. DBY — Job 39:21

22 He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from before the sword. DBY — Job 39:22

23 The quiver rattleth upon him, the glittering spear and the javelin. DBY — Job 39:23

24 He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, and cannot contain himself at the sound of the trumpet: DBY — Job 39:24

25 At the noise of the trumpets he saith, Aha! and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. DBY — Job 39:25

26 Doth the hawk fly by thine intelligence, [and] stretch his wings toward the south? DBY — Job 39:26

27 Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make his nest on high? DBY — Job 39:27

28 He inhabiteth the rock and maketh his dwelling on the point of the cliff, and the fastness: DBY — Job 39:28

29 From thence he spieth out the prey, his eyes look into the distance; DBY — Job 39:29

30 And his young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is he. DBY — Job 39:30