Job 39
Under each verse is the Hebrew source text word by word, from right to left: each prefix, stem and suffix with its transliteration, English gloss, Extended Strong's number and morphology code. Source text: STEPBible's TAHOT (CC BY 4.0)
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- 1"Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
- 2Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?
- 3They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, They end their labor pains.
- 4Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go forth, and don't return again.
- 5"Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
- 6Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?
- 7He scorns the tumult of the city, Neither hears he the shouting of the driver.
- 8The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.
- 9"Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
- 10Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?
- 11Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?
- 12Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, And gather the grain of your threshing floor?
- 13"The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; But are they the feathers and plumage of love?
- 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,
- 17Because God has deprived her of wisdom, Neither has he imparted to her understanding.
- 18When she lifts up herself on high, She scorns the horse and his rider.
- 19"Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?
- 20Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.
- 21He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength: He goes out to meet the armed men.
- 22He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed; Neither does he turn back from the sword.
- 23The quiver rattles against him, The flashing spear and the javelin.
- 24He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, Neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
- 25As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, 'Aha!' He smells the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
- 26"Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, And stretches her wings toward the south?
- 27Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, And makes his nest on high?
- 28On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, On the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.
- 29From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.
- 30His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is."
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