Job 39:2-13
English Standard Version
2 Can you number the months that they fulfill,
and do you know the time when they give birth,
3 when they (A)crouch, bring forth their offspring,
and are delivered of their young?
4 Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open;
they go out and (B)do not return to them.
5 “Who has let the wild donkey go free?
Who has (C)loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
6 to whom I have given (D)the arid plain for his home
and (E)the salt land for his dwelling place?
7 He scorns the tumult of the city;
he hears not the shouts of the driver.
8 He ranges the mountains as his pasture,
and he searches after every green thing.
9 “Is (F)the wild ox willing to serve you?
Will he spend the night at your (G)manger?
10 Can you bind (H)him in the furrow with ropes,
or will he harrow the valleys after you?
11 Will you depend on him because his strength is great,
and will you leave to him your labor?
12 Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain
and gather it to your threshing floor?
13 “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,
but are they the pinions and plumage of love?[a]
Footnotes
- Job 39:13 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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