vw - 39

vw@Job:39:1 @ Do you know the time when the wild mountain goats bear young? Or can you keep watch for when the deer gives birth?

vw@Job:39:2 @ Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they bring forth,

vw@Job:39:3 @ when they crouch, bring forth their young, and deliver their pangs?

vw@Job:39:4 @ Their young ones are healthy, they grow up with grain; when they have departed they do not return to them.

vw@Job:39:5 @ Who set the wild donkey free? Who loosed the bands of the wild ass,

vw@Job:39:6 @ whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwelling?

vw@Job:39:7 @ He scorns the tumult of the city; he does not heed the clamor of the driver.

vw@Job:39:8 @ The mountain ranges are his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

vw@Job:39:9 @ Will the oryx consent to serve you? Will he pass the night by your feeding trough?

vw@Job:39:10 @ Can you bind the oryx in the furrow with ropes? Or will he harrow the valleys after you?

vw@Job:39:11 @ Will you trust him because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to him?

vw@Job:39:12 @ Will you trust him to bring back your grain, and gather it to your threshing floor?

vw@Job:39:13 @ Have you made the wings of the ostrich flap joyously, or the wings and feathers of the stork?

vw@Job:39:14 @ For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and warms them in the dust;

vw@Job:39:15 @ she does not care that a foot may crush them, or that a beast of the field may trample them.

vw@Job:39:16 @ She treats her young roughly, as if they were not hers; her labor is in vain without fear,

vw@Job:39:17 @ because God has caused her to forget wisdom, and has not imparted understanding to her.

vw@Job:39:18 @ When she lifts herself on high, she laughs at the horse and its rider.

vw@Job:39:19 @ Have you given the horse its strength? Have you clothed its neck with a mane?

vw@Job:39:20 @ Can you make him leap like a locust? His majestic snorting strikes terror.

vw@Job:39:21 @ He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength; he goes forth to meet the weapons.

vw@Job:39:22 @ He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed; nor does he turn back from the sword.

vw@Job:39:23 @ The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and javelin.

vw@Job:39:24 @ He swallows the ground with rumbling and agitation; nor does he stand still at the sound of the shofar.

vw@Job:39:25 @ Every time the shofar sounds he says, Aha! He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of captains and shouting.

vw@Job:39:26 @ Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, and spread its wings toward the south?

vw@Job:39:27 @ Does the eagle mount up at your mouth, and make its nest on high?

vw@Job:39:28 @ It settles down and dwells on the rocks, on the crag of the rock and the stronghold.

vw@Job:39:29 @ From there it searches for food; its eyes see great distances.

vw@Job:39:30 @ Its young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there it is.

Job 39