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Job 39:28

On the cliff he dwells and makes his home, on the point of the cliff and the stronghold.

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Job 39 · Read in context

39:1

“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

39:2

Can you count the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?

39:3

They bow themselves. They bear their young. They end their labor pains.

39:4

Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go out, and don’t return again.

39:5

“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

39:6

whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

39:7

He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.

39:8

The range of the mountains is his pasture. He searches after every green thing.

39:9

“Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

39:10

Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?

39:11

Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?

39:12

Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?

39:13

“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

39:14

For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,

39:15

and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.

39:16

She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,

39:17

because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

39:18

When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.

39:19

“Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?

39:20

Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.

39:21

He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.

39:22

He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn back from the sword.

39:23

The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.

39:24

He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

39:25

As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

39:26

“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?

39:27

Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?

39:28

On the cliff he dwells and makes his home, on the point of the cliff and the stronghold.

39:29

From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.

39:30

His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is.”

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