Verse 7
Job 39:7
Bible in Basic English
7
He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;
Original Language Text
hebrew
יִ֭שְׂחַק לַ/הֲמ֣וֹן קִרְיָ֑ה תְּשֻׁא֥וֹת נ֝וֹגֵ֗שׂ לֹ֣א יִשְׁמָֽע
English Translation
He will rejoice for the multitude of the city; shouts of those who are oppressed will not be heard.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 39 Context
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Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?
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Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?
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They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.
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Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.
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Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?
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To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.
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He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;
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He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.
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Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?
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Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?
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Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work...
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Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?
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13
Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,
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14
That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,
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Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?
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She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear...
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For God (Elohim) has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.
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18
When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.
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19
Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?
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Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?
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21
He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.
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22
In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.
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The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow.
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Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;
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When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thund...
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Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?
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Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?
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On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place.
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From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.
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His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.
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