Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

³ The voice of the Lord is heard over the waters.
    The God of glory thunders.
    The Lord thunders over the mighty waters.
⁴ The voice of the Lord is powerful.
    The voice of the Lord is majestic.
⁵ The voice of the Lord breaks the cedar trees.
    The Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon into pieces.
⁶ He makes the mountains of Lebanon leap like a calf.
    He makes Mount Hermon jump like a young wild ox.
⁷ The voice of the Lord strikes
    with flashes of lightning.
⁸ The voice of the Lord shakes the desert.
    The Lord shakes the Desert of Kadesh.
⁹ The voice of the Lord twists the oak trees.
    It strips the forests bare.
    And in his temple everyone cries out, “Glory!”

¹⁰ The Lord on his throne rules over the flood.
    The Lord rules from his throne as King forever.
¹¹ The Lord gives strength to his people.
    The Lord blesses his people with peace.

³⁹ “Do you hunt for food for mother lions?
    Do you satisfy the hunger of their cubs?
⁴⁰ Some of them lie low in their dens.
    Others lie waiting in the bushes.
⁴¹ Who provides food for ravens
    when their babies cry out to me?
    They wander around because they do not have anything to eat.

39 “Job, do you know when mountain goats have their babies?
    Do you watch when female deer give birth?
² Do you count the months until the animals have their babies?
    Do you know the time when they give birth?
³ They bend their back legs and have their babies.
    Then their labor pains stop.
⁴ Their little ones grow strong and healthy in the wild.
    They leave and do not come home again.

⁵ “Who let the wild donkeys go free?
    Who untied their ropes?
⁶ I gave them the dry and empty land as their home.
    I gave them salt flats to live in.
⁷ They laugh at all the noise in town.
    They do not hear the shouts of the donkey drivers.
⁸ They wander over the hills to look for grass.
    They search for anything green to eat.

⁹ “Job, will wild oxen agree to serve you?
    Will they stay by your feed box at night?
¹⁰ Can you keep them in straight rows with harnesses?
    Will they plow the valleys behind you?
¹¹ Will you depend on them for their great strength?
    Will you let them do your heavy work?
¹² Can you trust them to haul in your grain?
    Will they bring it to your threshing floor?