Job 39:1-10 ▼

1 |Do you know when the mountain goat gives birth? Do you watch the doe as it calves its young?

2 Can you count the months of their gestation? Do you know the time when they give birth,

3 when they crouch down to give birth to their offspring, and let go of their birth pangs?

4 Their young are strong; they grow up in the open field; then they go off and don't return to them.|

5 |Who sets the wild donkey free? Who loosens the bonds of the wild donkey

6 to whom I've given the Arabah for a home; the salt plain for his dwelling place?

7 He despises city noises; he ignores the shouts of the driver.

8 He ranges the mountains that are his pasture to search for anything green.

9 Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he sleep at night near your feeding trough?

10 Can you bind the ox to plow a furrow with a rope? Will he harrow after you in the valley?