Verse 4
Job 39:4
New Living Translation
4
Their young grow up in the open fields,<br>then leave home and never return.<br>
Original Language Text
hebrew
יַחְלְמ֣וּ בְ֭נֵי/הֶם יִרְבּ֣וּ בַ/בָּ֑ר יָ֝צְא֗וּ וְ/לֹא שָׁ֥בוּ לָֽ/מוֹ
English Translation
Their children will long for them; they will multiply in the fields; they went out and did not return to them.
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Chapter 39 Context
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“Do you know when the wild goats give birth?<br>Have you watched as deer are born in the wild?<br>
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Do you know how many months they carry their young?<br>Are you aware of the time of their delivery?<...
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They crouch down to give birth to their young<br>and deliver their offspring.<br>
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Their young grow up in the open fields,<br>then leave home and never return.<br>
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“Who gives the wild donkey its freedom?<br>Who untied its ropes?<br>
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I have placed it in the wilderness;<br>its home is the wasteland.<br>
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It hates the noise of the city<br>and has no driver to shout at it.<br>
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The mountains are its pastureland,<br>where it searches for every blade of grass.<br>
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“Will the wild ox consent to being tamed?<br>Will it spend the night in your stall?<br>
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Can you hitch a wild ox to a plow?<br>Will it plow a field for you?<br>
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Given its strength, can you trust it?<br>Can you leave and trust the ox to do your work?<br>
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Can you rely on it to bring home your grain<br>and deliver it to your threshing floor?<br>
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“The ostrich flaps her wings grandly,<br>but they are no match for the feathers of the stork.<br>
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She lays her eggs on top of the earth,<br>letting them be warmed in the dust.<br>
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She doesn’t worry that a foot might crush them<br>or a wild animal might destroy them.<br>
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She is harsh toward her young,<br>as if they were not her own.<br>She doesn’t care if they die.<br>
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For God (Elohim) has deprived her of wisdom.<br>He has given her no understanding.<br>
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But whenever she jumps up to run,<br>she passes the swiftest horse with its rider.<br>
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“Have you given the horse its strength<br>or clothed its neck with a flowing mane?<br>
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Did you give it the ability to leap like a locust?<br>Its majestic snorting is terrifying!<br>
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It paws the earth and rejoices in its strength<br>when it charges out to battle.<br>
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It laughs at fear and is unafraid.<br>It does not run from the sword.<br>
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The arrows rattle against it,<br>and the spear and javelin flash.<br>
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It paws the ground fiercely<br>and rushes forward into battle when the ram’s horn blows.<br>
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It snorts at the sound of the horn.<br>It senses the battle in the distance.<br>It quivers at the ca...
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“Is it your wisdom that makes the hawk soar<br>and spread its wings toward the south?<br>
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Is it at your command that the eagle rises<br>to the heights to make its nest?<br>
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It lives on the cliffs,<br>making its home on a distant, rocky crag.<br>
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From there it hunts its prey,<br>keeping watch with piercing eyes.<br>
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Its young gulp down blood.<br>Where there’s a carcass, there you’ll find it.”<br>
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