Job 39:1-30 NCV

[1] "Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the deer gives birth to her fawn? [2] Do you count the months until they give birth and know the right time for them to give birth? [3] They lie down, their young are born, and then the pain of giving birth is over. [4] Their young ones grow big and strong in the wild country. Then they leave their homes and do not return. [5] "Who let the wild donkey go free? Who untied its ropes? [6] I am the one who gave the donkey the desert as its home; I gave it the desert lands as a place to live. [7] The wild donkey laughs at the confusion in the city, and it does not hear the drivers shout. [8] It roams the hills looking for pasture, looking for anything green to eat. [9] "Will the wild ox agree to serve you and stay by your feeding box at night? [10] Can you hold it to the plowed row with a harness so it will plow the valleys for you? [11] Will you depend on the wild ox for its great strength and leave your heavy work for it to do? [12] Can you trust the ox to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor? [13] "The wings of the ostrich flap happily, but they are not like the feathers of the stork. [14] The ostrich lays its eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand. [15] It does not stop to think that a foot might step on them and crush them; it does not care that some animal might walk on them. [16] The ostrich is cruel to its young, as if they were not even its own. It does not care that its work is for nothing, [17] because God did not give the ostrich wisdom; God did not give it a share of good sense. [18] But when the ostrich gets up to run, it is so fast that it laughs at the horse and its rider. [19] "Job, are you the one who gives the horse its strength or puts a flowing mane on its neck? [20] Do you make the horse jump like a locust? It scares people with its proud snorting. [21] It paws wildly, enjoying its strength, and charges into battle. [22] It laughs at fear and is afraid of nothing; it does not run away from the sword. [23] The bag of arrows rattles against the horse's side, along with the flashing spears and swords. [24] With great excitement, the horse races over the ground; and it cannot stand still when it hears the trumpet. [25] When the trumpet blows, the horse snorts, 'Aha!' It smells the battle from far away; it hears the shouts of commanders and the battle cry. [26] "Is it through your wisdom that the hawk flies and spreads its wings toward the south? [27] Are you the one that commands the eagle to fly and build its nest so high? [28] It lives on a high cliff and stays there at night; the rocky peak is its protected place. [29] From there it looks for its food; its eyes can see it from far away. [30] Its young eat blood, and where there is something dead, the eagle is there."