Book of Job, Chapter 39
Chapter 39 of Job
Do you observe the calving of the hinds?
and do you know the time when they bring forth,
and are delivered of their young?
they go forth, and do not return to them.
Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,
and the salt land for his dwelling place?
he hears not the shouts of the driver.
and he searches after every green thing.
Will he spend the night at your crib?
or will he harrow the valleys after you?
and will you leave to him your labor?
and bring your grain to your threshing floor?[a]
but are they the pinions and plumage of love?[b]
and lets them be warmed on the ground,
and that the wild beast may trample them.
though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear;
and given her no share in understanding.
she laughs at the horse and his rider.
Do you clothe his neck with strength?[d]
His majestic snorting is terrible.
he goes out to meet the weapons.
he does not turn back from the sword.
the flashing spear and the javelin.
he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
He smells the battle from afar,
the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
and spreads his wings toward the south?
and makes his nest on high?
in the fastness of the rocky crag.
his eyes behold it afar off.
and where the slain are, there is he.”FOOTNOTES
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