Verse 8
Job 39:8
Free Bible Version
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Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will it spend the night at your manger?
Original Language Text
hebrew
יְת֣וּר הָרִ֣ים מִרְעֵ֑/הוּ וְ/אַחַ֖ר כָּל יָר֣וֹק יִדְרֽוֹשׁ
English Translation
The residue of the mountains is a pasture, and after all the green, it shall seek.
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Chapter 39 Context
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“Do you know when the wild goats give birth? Have you watched the birth-pains of the deer?
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Do you know how many months they carry their young? Do you know the time when they give birth?
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Their young grow strong in the open countryside; they leave and never return.
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Who gave the wild donkey its freedom? Who set it free from its bonds?
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I have given it the wilderness as its home, the salt plains as a place to live.
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It despises the noise of the city; it doesn't need to listen to the shouts of a driver.
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It hunts in the mountains for pastureland, searching for all kinds of green plants to eat.
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Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will it spend the night at your manger?
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Can you tie a wild ox to a plow? Can you make it till your fields for you?
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Because it's so powerful can you trust it? Can you depend on it to do your heavy work for you?
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Are you sure it will gather your grain and bring it to your threshing floor?
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The ostrich proudly flaps her wings, but they are nothing like the flight feathers of the stork.
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The ostrich abandons her eggs on the ground, leaving them to be warmed in the dust.
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She doesn't think that they can be crushed underfoot, trampled by a wild animal.
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She is tough towards her young, acting as if they didn't belong to her. She doesn't care that all he...
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For I, God (Elohim), made her forget wisdom—she didn't get her share of intelligence.
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But when she needs to, she can jump up and run, mocking a horse and its rider with her speed.
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Did you give the horse its strength? Did you place a mane upon its neck?
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Did you make it able to jump like a locust? Its loud snorting is terrifying!
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It paws at the ground, rearing up with power as it charges into battle.
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It laughs at fear; it is not frightened at all.
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The quiver full of arrows rattles against it; the spear and the javelin flash in the sunlight.
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Shaking with rage it gallops across the ground; it cannot remain still when the trumpet sounds.
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Whenever the trumpet calls, it is ready; he senses the sound of battle from far away, he hears the c...
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Is it through your wisdom that the hawk soars, spreading its wings towards the south?
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Do you command the eagle to fly high and make its nest in the summits of the mountains?
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It lives among the cliffs, and roosts on a remote rocky crag.
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From there it spies its prey from far away, fixing its gaze on its victim. Its chicks eagerly swallo...
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Where the carcasses are, that's where birds of prey are found.”
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