Job 39

^{Job 39:1} “Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?

^{Job 39:2} Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth?

^{Job 39:3} They crouch down and bring forth their young; they deliver their newborn.

^{Job 39:4} Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return.

^{Job 39:5} Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?

^{Job 39:6} I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.

^{Job 39:7} He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.

^{Job 39:8} He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.

^{Job 39:9} Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?

^{Job 39:10} Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?

^{Job 39:11} Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?

^{Job 39:12} Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?

^{Job 39:13} The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.

^{Job 39:14} For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.

^{Job 39:15} She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.

^{Job 39:16} She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.

^{Job 39:17} For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.

^{Job 39:18} Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.

^{Job 39:19} Do you give strength to the horse or adorn his neck with a mane?

^{Job 39:20} Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting?

^{Job 39:21} He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he charges into battle.

^{Job 39:22} He laughs at fear, frightened of nothing; he does not turn back from the sword.

^{Job 39:23} A quiver rattles at his side, along with a flashing spear and lance.

^{Job 39:24} Trembling with excitement, he devours the distance; he cannot stand still when the ram’s horn sounds.

^{Job 39:25} At the blast of the horn, he snorts with fervor. He catches the scent of battle from afar— the shouts of captains and the cry of war.

^{Job 39:26} Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south?

^{Job 39:27} Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?

^{Job 39:28} He dwells on a cliff and lodges there; his stronghold is on a rocky crag.

^{Job 39:29} From there he spies out food; his eyes see it from afar.

^{Job 39:30} His young ones feast on blood; and where the slain are, there he is.”