Job 39

1“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?Cross-references: Deut 14:5 · 1Sam 24:2 · Ps 29:9 · Ps 104:18 · Jer 14:5

2Can you count the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?Cross-references: Jer 2:24

3They bow themselves. They bear their young. They end their labor pains.

4Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go out, and don’t return again.

5“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,Cross-references: Gen 16:12 · Gen 49:14 · Job 6:5 · Job 11:12 · Job 24:5 · Ps 104:11 · +5 more

6whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?Cross-references: Deut 29:23 · Job 24:5 · Ps 107:34 · Jer 2:24 · Jer 17:6 · Ezek 47:11 · +1 more

7He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.Cross-references: Ex 5:13 · Ex 5:18 · Job 3:18 · Job 39:18 · Isa 31:4 · Isa 58:3

8The range of the mountains is his pasture. He searches after every green thing.Cross-references: Gen 1:29 · Job 40:15 · Job 40:20 · Ps 104:27 · Ps 145:15

9“Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?Cross-references: Num 23:22 · Deut 33:17 · Ps 22:21 · Ps 92:10 · Isa 1:3

10Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?Cross-references: Job 1:14 · Job 39:5 · Job 39:7 · Job 41:5 · Ps 129:3 · Hos 10:10 · +1 more

11Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?Cross-references: Gen 1:26 · Gen 1:28 · Gen 9:2 · Gen 42:26 · Ps 20:7 · Ps 33:16 · +7 more

12Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?Cross-references: Neh 13:15 · Prov 3:16 · Amos 2:13 · Hag 2:19 · Matt 3:2 · Matt 13:30

13“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the feathers and plumage of love?Cross-references: Lev 11:19 · 1Ki 10:22 · 2Chr 9:21 · Job 30:29 · Ps 104:17 · Jer 8:7 · +1 more

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

15and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.

16She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,Cross-references: Deut 28:56 · 1Ki 3:26 · 2Ki 6:28 · Eccl 10:15 · Lam 2:20 · Lam 4:3 · +2 more

17because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.Cross-references: Deut 2:30 · 2Chr 32:31 · Job 17:4 · Job 35:11 · Isa 19:11 · Isa 57:17 · +1 more

18When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.Cross-references: 2Ki 19:21 · Job 5:22 · Job 39:7 · Job 39:22 · Job 41:29

19“Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?Cross-references: Ex 15:1 · Job 39:25 · Ps 93:1 · Ps 104:1 · Ps 147:10 · Mark 3:17

20Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.Cross-references: Job 41:20 · Jer 8:16 · Joel 2:5

21He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.Cross-references: Judg 5:22 · 1Sam 17:4 · 1Sam 17:42 · Ps 19:5 · Prov 21:31 · Jer 8:6 · +1 more

22He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn back from the sword.Cross-references: Job 39:16 · Job 39:18 · Job 41:33

23The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.Cross-references: Job 41:26

24He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.Cross-references: Job 9:16 · Job 29:24 · Job 37:20 · Jer 4:19 · Amos 3:6 · Hab 1:8 · +1 more

25As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.Cross-references: Ps 70:3 · Ezek 26:2 · Ezek 36:2

26“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?Cross-references: Lev 16:11 · Deut 14:15 · Song 2:12 · Jer 8:7

27Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?Cross-references: Ex 19:4 · Lev 11:13 · Ps 103:5 · Prov 23:5 · Isa 40:31 · Jer 49:16 · +2 more

28On the cliff he dwells and makes his home, on the point of the cliff and the stronghold.Cross-references: 1Sam 14:4

29From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.Cross-references: Job 9:26

30His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is.”Cross-references: Ezek 39:17 · Matt 24:28 · Luke 17:37