Job 39
1 Hast thou known the time of The bearing of the wild goats of the rock? The bringing forth of hinds thou dost mark!
Knowest thou the time when the wilde goates bring foorth yong? or doest thou marke when the hindes doe calue?
2 Thou dost number the months they fulfil? And thou hast known the time of their bringing forth!
Canst thou nomber the moneths that they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth?
3 They bow down, Their young ones they bring forth safely, Their pangs they cast forth.
They bow them selues: they bruise their yong and cast out their sorowes.
4 Safe are their young ones, They grow up in the field, they have gone out, And have not returned to them.
Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them.
5 Who hath sent forth the wild ass free? Yea, the bands of the wild ass who opened?
Who hath set the wilde asse at libertie? or who hath loosed the bondes of the wilde asse?
6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,
It is I which haue made the wildernesse his house, and the salt places his dwellings.
7 He doth laugh at the multitude of a city, The cries of an exactor he heareth not.
He derideth the multitude of the citie: he heareth not the crie of the driuer.
8 The range of mountains [is] his pasture, And after every green thing he seeketh.
He seeketh out the mountaine for his pasture, and searcheth after euery greene thing.
9 Is a Reem willing to serve thee? Doth he lodge by thy crib?
Will the vnicorne serue thee? or will he tary by thy cribbe?
10 Dost thou bind a Reem in a furrow [with] his thick band? Doth he harrow valleys after thee?
Canst thou binde the vnicorne with his band to labour in the furrowe? or will he plowe the valleyes after thee?
11 Dost thou trust in him because great [is] his power? And dost thou leave unto him thy labour?
Wilt thou trust in him, because his strength is great, and cast off thy labour vnto him?
12 Dost thou trust in him That he doth bring back thy seed? And [to] thy threshing-floor doth gather [it]?
Wilt thou beleeue him, that he will bring home thy seede, and gather it vnto thy barne?
13 The wing of the rattling ones exulteth, Whether the pinion of the ostrich or hawk.
Hast thou giuen the pleasant wings vnto the peacockes? or winges and feathers vnto the ostriche?
14 For she leaveth on the earth her eggs, And on the dust she doth warm them,
Which leaueth his egges in the earth, and maketh them hote in the dust,
15 And she forgetteth that a foot may press it, And a beast of the field tread it down.
And forgetteth that the foote might scatter the, or that the wild beast might breake the.
16 Her young ones it hath hardened without her, In vain [is] her labour without fear.
He sheweth himselfe cruell vnto his yong ones, as they were not his, and is without feare, as if he trauailed in vaine.
17 For God hath caused her to forget wisdom, And He hath not given a portion To her in understanding:
For God had depriued him of wisedom, and hath giuen him no part of vnderstanding.
18 At the time on high she lifteth herself up, She laugheth at the horse and at his rider.
When time is, he mounteth on hie: he mocketh the horse and his rider.
19 Dost thou give to the horse might? Dost thou clothe his neck [with] a mane?
Hast thou giuen the horse strength? or couered his necke with neying?
20 Dost thou cause him to rush as a locust? The majesty of his snorting [is] terrible.
Hast thou made him afraid as the grashopper? his strong neying is fearefull.
21 They dig in a valley, and he rejoiceth in power, He goeth forth to meet the armour.
He diggeth in the valley, and reioyceth in his strength: he goeth foorth to meete the harnest man.
22 He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted, And he turneth not back from the face of the sword.
He mocketh at feare, and is not afraid, and turneth not backe from the sworde,
23 Against him rattle doth quiver, The flame of a spear, and a halbert.
Though the quiuer rattle against him, the glittering speare and the shield.
24 With trembling and rage he swalloweth the ground, And remaineth not stedfast Because of the sound of a trumpet.
He swalloweth the ground for fearcenes and rage, and he beleeueth not that it is the noise of the trumpet.
25 Among the trumpets he saith, Aha, And from afar he doth smell battle, Roaring of princes and shouting.
He sayth among the trumpets, Ha, ha: hee smellleth the battell afarre off, and the noyse of the captaines, and the shouting.
26 By thine understanding flieth a hawk? Spreadeth he his wings to the south?
Shall the hauke flie by thy wisedome, stretching out his wings toward the South?
27 At thy command goeth an eagle up high? Or lifteth he up his nest?
Doeth the eagle mount vp at thy commandement, or make his nest on hie?
28 A rock he doth inhabit, Yea, he lodgeth on the tooth of a rock, and fortress.
Shee abideth and remaineth in the rocke, euen vpon the toppe of the rocke, and the tower.
29 From thence he hath sought food, To a far off place his eyes look attentively,
From thence she spieth for meate, and her eyes beholde afarre off.
30 And his brood gulp up blood, And where the pierced [are] — there [is] he!
His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where the slaine are, there is she.
