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Job 39 📜 📕 ↷
LORD Speaks of His Creation
1 HAST thou known the time when the wild goats bring forth young among the rocks, or hast thou observed the hinds when they fawn?📜💬📚
2 Hast thou numbered the months of their conceiving, and known the time of their bearing?📜💬📚
3 They bow down themselves to bring forth young, and they cast them, and make roarings.📜💬📚
4 Their young are separated, and go to feed: they go forth, and return not to them.📜💬📚
5 Who hath dismist the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bonds?📜💬📚
6 To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his tabernacles in the land of saltness.📜💬📚
7 He contemneth the multitude of the city, the cry of the exactor he heareth not.📜💬📚
8 He looketh about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh out all green places.📜💬📚
9 Will the Rhinoceros serve thee, and will he tarry at thy stall?📜💬📚
10 Shalt thou tie the Rhinoceros with thy collar to plough, or will he break the clods of the valleys after thee?📜💬📚
11 Shalt thou have confidence in his great strength, and leave thy labours unto him?📜💬📚
12 Wilt thou credit him that he will render thee the seed, and gather together thy barn floor?📜💬📚
13 The wing of the Ostrich is like to the wings of the Herodius, and of the hawk.📜💬📚
14 When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt heat them in the dust.📜💬📚
15 She forgeteth that foot may tread upon them, or beast of the field break them.📜💬📚
16 She is hardened toward her young, as though they were not hers, she hath laboured in vain no fear compelling her.📜💬📚
17 For God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he given her understanding.📜💬📚
18 When time shall be, she setteth up the wings on high: she scorneth the horse and his rider.📜💬📚
19 Shalt thou give strength to the horse, or put neighing about his neck?📜💬📚
20 Shalt thou raise him up as Locusts? The glory of his nostrils is terror.📜💬📚
21 He diggeth the earth with his hoof, he pranceth boldly, he goeth forward to meet the armed men.📜💬📚
22 He contemneth fear, neither yieldeth he to the sword.📜💬📚
23 Upon him shall the quiver sound, the spear shall glister and the shield.📜💬📚
24 Fervent and fuming he suppeth the earth, neither doth he make account when the noise of the trumpet soundeth.📜💬📚
25 When he shall hear the trumpet he saith: Vah, he smelleth battle far off, the exhortation of the captains, and the cry of the army.📜💬📚
26 Doth the hawk wax feathered by thy wisdom, spreading her wings to the South?📜💬📚
27 Shall the eagle mount at thy commandment, and put her nest in high places?📜💬📚
28 She abideth in rocks, and tarrieth among cragged flints, and stony hills where is no access.📜💬📚
29 Thence she beholdeth the prey, and her eyes see a far off.📜💬📚
30 Her young ones shall lick blood: and wheresoever the carcass shall be, she is present by and by.📜💬📚
31 And our Lord added, and spake to Job:📜💬📚
32 He that contendeth with God is he quieted so easily? Verily he that reproveth God, ought to answer him.📜💬📚
33 But Job answering our Lord, said:📜💬📚
34 I that have spoken lightly what can I answer? I will put my hand upon my mouth.📜💬📚
35 One thing I have spoken, which I would I had not said: and an other, to the which things I will add no more.📜💬📚
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