Job 39:1-17 ▼

1 “Have you known the time of || The bearing of the wild goats of the rock? Do you mark the bringing forth of does?

2 Do you number the months they fulfill? And have you known the time of their bringing forth?

3 They bow down, || They bring forth their young ones safely, || They cast forth their pangs.

4 Their young ones are safe, || They grow up in the field, they have gone out, || And have not returned to them.

5 Who has sent forth the wild donkey free? Indeed, who opened the bands of the wild donkey?

6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, || And his dwellings the barren land,

7 He laughs at the multitude of a city, || He does not hear the cries of an exactor.

8 The range of mountains [is] his pasture, || And he seeks after every green thing.

9 Is a wild ox willing to serve you? Does he lodge by your crib?

10 Do you bind a wild ox in a furrow [with] his thick band? Does he harrow valleys after you?

11 Do you trust in him because his power [is] great? And do you leave your labor to him?

12 Do you trust in him || That he brings back your seed, || And gathers [it to] your threshing-floor?

13 [The] wing of the crying ostriches exults, but as a pinion and feather of a stork?

14 For she leaves her eggs on the earth, || And she warms them on the dust,

15 And she forgets that a foot may press it, || And a beast of the field treads it down.

16 It has hardened her young ones without her, || Her labor [is] in vain, without fear.

17 For God has caused her to forget wisdom, || And He has not given a portion || To her in understanding;