Job 39:1-30 GW

[1] "Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch the does when they are in labor? [2] Can you count the months they are pregnant or know the time when they'll give birth? [3] They kneel down to give birth and deliver their young. Then the pain of giving birth is over. [4] Their young are healthy and grow up in the wild. They leave and don't come back. [5] "Who lets the wild donkey go free? Who unties the ropes of the wild donkey? [6] I gave it the desert to live in and the salt flats as its dwelling place. [7] It laughs at the noise of the city and doesn't even listen to the shouting of its master. [8] It explores the mountains for its pasture and looks for anything green. [9] "Will the wild ox agree to serve you, or will it stay at night beside your feeding trough? [10] Can you guide a wild ox in a furrow, or will it plow the valleys behind you? [11] Can you trust it just because it's so strong or leave your labor to it? [12] Can you rely on it to bring your grain back and take it to your threshing floor? [13] "Does the ostrich flap its wings in joy, or do its wings lack feathers? [14] It lays its eggs on the ground and warms them in the dust. [15] It forgets that a foot may crush them or a wild animal may trample them. [16] It acts harshly toward its young as if they weren't its own. It is not afraid that its work is for nothing [17] because God has deprived it of wisdom and did not give it any understanding. [18] It laughs at the horse and its rider when it gets up to flee. [19] "Can you give strength to a horse or dress its neck with a flowing mane? [20] Can you make it leap like a locust, when its snorting causes terror? [21] It paws in strength and finds joy in its power. It charges into battle. [22] It laughs at fear, is afraid of nothing, and doesn't back away from swords. [23] A quiver of arrows rattles on it along with the flashing spear and javelin. [24] Anxious and excited, the horse eats up the ground and doesn't trust the sound of the ram's horn. [25] As often as the horn sounds, the horse says, 'Aha!' and it smells the battle far away- the thundering orders of the captains and the battle cries. [26] "Does your understanding make a bird of prey fly and spread its wings toward the south? [27] Is it by your order that the eagle flies high and makes its nest on the heights? [28] It perches for the night on a cliff. Its fortress is on a jagged peak. [29] From there it seeks food, and its eyes see it from far away. [30] Its young ones feed on blood. It is found wherever there are dead bodies."