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Job
Chapter
39
{Chapters
32-39: Decision of the Judges}
{Chapters 38-39: Decision of the Divine Judge - God}
{Verses
1-4: Illustration the Mountain Goat}
1-2``
"Do you know the season/time
when
the mountain goats give birth?
Can you mark the time when the hinds/deer calve? 2``
Can you count the months that they need to complete?
Or know you the time when they give birth {?} . . . 3``
when they couch to bring forth their offspring . . .
to deliver their young?
4``Their young are healthy.
They grow up 'in the open'/'with the corn'.
They leave and return no more.
{Verses
5-8: Illustration the Wild Jackass}
5-6``Who
sets the wild ass free?
Or who loosened the bands of the wild ass {?} . . . 6``
whose house, I {God} have made the wilderness,
and the barren/salt land his dwellings?
7``He scoffs at the tumult of the city . . .
and does not hear the shouts of the driver.
8`` The range of the mountains is his pasture,
and he search after every green thing {to eat}.
{Verses
9-12: Illustration the Wild Ox}
9``Would
the wild ox be willing to serve you {?} . . .
or spend the night at your crib?
10``Can you hold by ropes the wild ox to the plow/ furrow {?} . . .
or would he plow/harrow the valleys behind you?
11``Would you rely on his great strength . . .
and leave your toil/labor to him?
12``Would you trust him to bring in the seed . . .
and
gather it in from your threshing floor?
{Verses
13-18: Illustration the Ostrich}
13``The
wing of the ostrich beats joyously.
Are her pinions and plumage like the storks?
14``She leaves her eggs on the ground . . .
letting them warm in the dirt.
15``Forgetting they may be crushed underfoot.
16-18``Her young are cruelly abandoned as if they were not there.
Her labor is in vain for lack of concern . . . 17``
because God/'Elowahh has deprived her of wisdom . . .
neither has He imparted to her a share of understanding . . . 18``
else she would soar on high . . .
scoffing at the horse and his rider.
{Verses
19-25: Illustration the War Horse}
19``Do
you give the horse its strength?
Do you clothe his neck with a mane?
20``Do you make him quiver like locusts {?} . . .
his majestic snorting . . . {spreading} terror?
21``He paws with force.
He runs with vigor . . .
charging into battle.
22``He scoffs at fear.
He can not be frightened.
He does not recoil from the sword.
23``A quiver full of arrows whizzes by him . . .
and the flashing spear . . .
and the javelin.
24``Trembling with excitement, he swallows the land . . .
he
does not turn aside at the blast of the trumpet
{the battle trumpet blast indicates the beginning of a battle}.
25``As the trumpets sounds, he says. "Aha!"
From afar he smells the battle,
The roaring and shouting of the officers.
{Verses
26-30: Illustration the Hawks and the Eagles}
26``Is
it by your wisdom that the hawk grows pinions {?} . . .
and spreads her wings to the south?
27-28``Does the eagle soar at your command {?} . . .
building her nest on high {?} . . . 28``
dwelling in the rock . . .
lodging upon the fastness of a jutting rock?
29``From there, he spies out his food . . .
from afar . . . his eyes see it.
30``His young . . . gulp blood . . .
where the slain are . . . there he is."
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