Old Testament · BSB
Job 39
Berean Standard Bible · 30 verses
- “Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?
- Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth?
- They crouch down and bring forth their young; they deliver their newborn.
- Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return.
- Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?
- I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
- He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.
- He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.
- Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?
- Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?
- Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?
- Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
- The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.
- For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.
- She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.
- She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.
- For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.
- Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.
- Do you give strength to the horse or adorn his neck with a mane?
- Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting?
- He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he charges into battle.
- He laughs at fear, frightened of nothing; he does not turn back from the sword.
- A quiver rattles at his side, along with a flashing spear and lance.
- Trembling with excitement, he devours the distance; he cannot stand still when the ram’s horn sounds.
- 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.
- Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south?
- Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?
- He dwells on a cliff and lodges there; his stronghold is on a rocky crag.
- From there he spies out food; his eyes see it from afar.
- His young ones feast on blood; and where the slain are, there he is.”