Job - Chapter 39 - King James 2000
- Know you the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or can you mark when the hinds do calve?
- Can you number the months that they fulfill? or know you the time when they bring forth?
- They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their offspring.
- Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth, and return not unto them.
- Who has let the wild donkey go free? or who has loosed the bonds of the wild donkey?
- Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
- He scorns the multitude of the city, neither regards he the shouts of the driver.
- The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
- Will the wild ox be willing to serve you, or abide by your crib?
- Can you bind the wild ox with ropes in the furrow? or will he plow the valleys behind you?
- Will you trust him, because his strength is great? or will you leave your labor to him?
- Will you believe him, that he will bring home your grain, and gather it into your barn?
- Gave you the proud wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
- Which leaves her eggs in the earth, and warms them in dust,
- And forgets that the foot may crush them, or that a wild beast may break them.
- She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain without concern;
- Because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
- When she lifts up herself high, she scorns the horse and his rider.
- Have you given the horse strength? have you clothed his neck with thunder?
- Can you make him afraid like a grasshopper? the majesty of his snorting is terrible.
- He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength: he goes out to meet the armed men.
- He mocks at fear, and is not frightened; neither turns he back from the sword.
- The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the javelin.
- He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage: neither does he halt at the sound of the trumpet.
- He says among the trumpets, Aha; and he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
- Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?
- Does the eagle mount up at your command, and make her nest on high?
- She dwells and abides on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the stronghold.
- From there she seeks the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
- Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.