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Job 39:4-8
The Message
Job 39:4-8
The Message
39 1-4 “Do you know the month when mountain goats give birth?
Have you ever watched a doe bear her fawn?
Do you know how many months she is pregnant?
Do you know the season of her delivery,
when she crouches down and drops her offspring?
Her young ones flourish and are soon on their own;
they leave and don’t come back.
5-8 “Who do you think set the wild donkey free,
opened the corral gates and let him go?
I gave him the whole wilderness to roam in,
the rolling plains and wide-open places.
He laughs at his city cousins, who are harnessed and harried.
He’s oblivious to the cries of teamsters.
He grazes freely through the hills,
nibbling anything that’s green.
Job 39:4-6
New International Version
Job 39:4-6
New International Version
4 Their young thrive and grow strong in the wilds;
they leave and do not return.
Job 39:4-6
King James Version
Job 39:4-6
King James Version
4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
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Job 39:4-6
New English Translation
Job 39:4-6
New English Translation
4 Their young grow strong, and grow up in the open;[a]
they go off, and do not return to them.
5 Who let the wild donkey go free?
Who released the bonds of the donkey,
6 to whom I appointed the arid rift valley[b] for its home,
the salt wastes as its dwelling place?
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