39:1 “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the deer gives birth to her fawn?
39:2 Do you count the months until they give birth and know the right time for them to give birth?
39:3 They lie down, their young are born, and then the pain of giving birth is over.
39:4 Their young ones grow big and strong in the wild country. Then they leave their homes and do not return.
39:5 “Who let the wild donkey go free? Who untied its ropes?
39:6 I am the one who gave the donkey the desert as its home; I gave it the desert lands as a place to live.
39:7 The wild donkey laughs at the confusion in the city, and it does not hear the drivers shout.
39:8 It roams the hills looking for pasture, looking for anything green to eat.
39:9 “Will the wild ox agree to serve you and stay by your feeding box at night?
39:10 Can you hold it to the plowed row with a harness so it will plow the valleys for you?
39:11 Will you depend on the wild ox for its great strength and leave your heavy work for it to do?
39:12 Can you trust the ox to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
39:13 “The wings of the ostrich flap happily, but they are not like the feathers of the stork.
39:14 The ostrich lays its eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.
39:15 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.
39:16 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,
39:17 because God did not give the ostrich wisdom; God did not give it a share of good sense.
39:18 But when the ostrich gets up to run, it is so fast that it laughs at the horse and its rider.
39:19 “Job, are you the one who gives the horse its strength or puts a flowing mane on its neck?
39:20 Do you make the horse jump like a locust? It scares people with its proud snorting.
39:21 It paws wildly, enjoying its strength, and charges into battle.
39:22 It laughs at fear and is afraid of nothing; it does not run away from the sword.
39:23 The bag of arrows rattles against the horse’s side, along with the flashing spears and swords.
39:24 With great excitement, the horse races over the ground; and it cannot stand still when it hears the trumpet.
39:25 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.
39:26 “Is it through your wisdom that the hawk flies and spreads its wings toward the south?
39:27 Are you the one that commands the eagle to fly and build its nest so high?
39:28 It lives on a high cliff and stays there at night; the rocky peak is its protected place.
39:29 From there it looks for its food; its eyes can see it from far away.
39:30 Its young eat blood, and where there is something dead, the eagle is there.”
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