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Job 39

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

39:1

[Say] if thou knowest the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock, and [if] thou hast marked the calving of the hinds:

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and [if] thou hast numbered the full months of their being with young, and [if] thou hast relieved their pangs:

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and hast reared their young without fear; and wilt thou loosen their pangs?

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Their young will break forth; they will be multiplied with offspring: [their young] will go forth, and will not return to them.

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39:5

And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? and who loosed his bands?

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whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, and the salt land his coverts.

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39:7

He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer.

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39:8

He will survey the mountains [as] his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing.

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39:9

And will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or to lie down at thy manger?

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39:10

And wilt thou bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plough furrows for thee in the plain?

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39:11

And dost thou trust him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou commit thy works to him?

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39:12

And wilt thou believe that he will return to thee thy seed, and bring [it] in [to] thy threshing-floor?

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39:13

The peacock has a beautiful wing: if the stork and the ostrich conceive, [it is worthy of notice],

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39:14

for [the ostrich] will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust,

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and has forgotten that the foot will scatter them, and the wild beasts of the field trample them.

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39:16

She has hardened [herself] against her young ones, as though [she bereaved] not herself: she labours in vain without fear.

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39:17

For God has withholden wisdom from her, and not given her a portion in understanding.

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39:18

In her season she will lift herself on high; she will scorn the horse and his rider.

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39:19

Hast thou invested the horse with strength, and clothed his neck with terror?

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39:20

And hast thou clad him in perfect armour, and made his breast glorious with courage?

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39:21

He paws exulting in the plain, and goes forth in strength into the plain.

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39:22

He laughs to scorn a king as he meets him, and will by no means turn back from the sword.

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39:23

The bow and sword resound against him; and [his] rage will swallow up the ground:

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and he will not believe until the trumpet sounds.

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And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! and afar off he smells the war with prancing and neighing.

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39:26

And does the hawk remain steady by thy wisdom, having spread out her wings unmoved, looking toward the region of the south?

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39:27

And does the eagle rise at thy command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest,

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on a crag of a rock, and in a secret [place]?

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39:29

Thence he seeks food, his eyes observe from far.

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39:30

And his young ones roll themselves in blood, and wherever the carcases may be, immediately they are found.

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