Job - Chapter 39

1Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough, 2When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood? 3Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food? 4Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young? 5Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you? 6They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body. 7Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again. 8Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast? 9To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place. 10He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears; 11He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing. 12Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store? 13Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you? 14Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care? 15Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor? 16Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers, 17That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust, 18Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field? 19She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear. 20For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge. 21When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him. 22Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power? 23Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath? 24He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear. 25In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword. 26The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow. 27Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn; 28When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries. 29Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south? 30Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high? 31On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place. 32From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off. 33His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen. 34... 35Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer. 36And Job said in answer to the Lord, 37Truly, I am of no value; what answer may I give to you? I will put my hand on my mouth. 38I have said once, and even twice, what was in my mind, but I will not do so again.