# Job 39 (New King James Version)
God Continues to Challenge Job

##### Chapter 39
###### 1 "Do you know the time when the wild mountain goats bear young?  
_Or_ can you mark when the deer gives birth?  

###### 2 Can you number the months _that_ they fulfill?  
Or do you know the time when they bear young?  

###### 3 They bow down,  
They bring forth their young,  
They deliver their offspring.  

###### 4 Their young ones are healthy,  
They grow strong with grain;  
They depart and do not return to them.

###### 5 "Who set the wild donkey free?  
Who loosed the bonds of the onager,  

###### 6 Whose home I have made the wilderness,  
And the barren land his dwelling?  

###### 7 He scorns the tumult of the city;  
He does not heed the shouts of the driver.  

###### 8 The range of the mountains _is_ his pasture,  
And he searches after every green thing.

###### 9 "Will the wild ox be willing to serve you?  
Will he bed by your manger?  

###### 10 Can you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes?  
Or will he plow the valleys behind you?  

###### 11 Will you trust him because his strength _is_ great?  
Or will you leave your labor to him?  

###### 12 Will you trust him to bring home your grain,  
And gather it to your threshing floor?

###### 13 "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,  
But are her wings and pinions _like the_ kindly stork's?  

###### 14 For she leaves her eggs on the ground,  
And warms them in the dust;  

###### 15 She forgets that a foot may crush them,  
Or that a wild beast may break them.  

###### 16 She treats her young harshly, as though _they were_ not hers;  
Her labor is in vain, without concern,  

###### 17 Because God deprived her of wisdom,  
And did not endow her with understanding.  

###### 18 When she lifts herself on high,  
She scorns the horse and its rider.

###### 19 "Have you given the horse strength?  
Have you clothed his neck with thunder?  

###### 20 Can you frighten him like a locust?  
His majestic snorting strikes terror.  

###### 21 He paws in the valley, and rejoices in _his_ strength;  
He gallops into the clash of arms.  

###### 22 He mocks at fear, and is not frightened;  
Nor does he turn back from the sword.  

###### 23 The quiver rattles against him,  
The glittering spear and javelin.  

###### 24 He devours the distance with fierceness and rage;  
Nor does he come to a halt because the trumpet _has_ sounded.  

###### 25 At _the blast of_ the trumpet he says, 'Aha!'  
He smells the battle from afar,  
The thunder of captains and shouting.

###### 26 "Does the hawk fly by your wisdom,  
_And_ spread its wings toward the south?  

###### 27 Does the eagle mount up at your command,  
And make its nest on high?  

###### 28 On the rock it dwells and resides,  
On the crag of the rock and the stronghold.  

###### 29 From there it spies out the prey;  
Its eyes observe from afar.  

###### 30 Its young ones suck up blood;  
And where the slain _are,_ there it _is._"