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JOB 39
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“Can you direct the movement of the stars—
binding the cluster of the Pleiades
or loosening the cords of Orion?
Can you direct the constellations through
the seasons
or guide the Bear with her cubs across
the heavens?
Do you know the laws of the universe?
Can you use them to regulate the earth?
“Can you shout to the clouds
and make it rain?
Can you make lightning appear
and cause it to strike as you direct?
Who gives intuition to the heart
and instinct to the mind?
Who is wise enough to count all the
clouds?
Who can tilt the water jars of heaven
when the parched ground is dry
and the soil has hardened into clods?
“Can you stalk prey for a lioness
and satisfy the young lions’ appetites
as they lie in their dens
or crouch in the thicket?
Who provides food for the ravens
when their young cry out to God
and wander about in hunger?
The LORD’s Challenge Continues
1 “Do you know when the wild goats
give birth?
Have you watched as deer are born in
the wild?
2 Do you know how many months they carry
their young?
Are you aware of the time of their
delivery?
3 They crouch down to give birth to their
young
and deliver their offspring.
4 Their young grow up in the open fields,
then leave home and never return.
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“Who gives the wild donkey its freedom?
Who untied its ropes?
I have placed it in the wilderness;
its home is the wasteland.
It hates the noise of the city
and has no driver to shout at it.
The mountains are its pastureland,
where it searches for every blade of grass.
“Will the wild ox consent to being tamed?
Will it spend the night in your stall?
Can you hitch a wild ox to a plow?
Will it plow a field for you?
Given its strength, can you trust it?
Can you leave and trust the ox to do
your work?
Can you rely on it to bring home your grain
and deliver it to your threshing floor?
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“The ostrich flaps her wings grandly,
but they are no match for the feathers
of the stork.
She lays her eggs on top of the earth,
letting them be warmed in the dust.
She doesn’t worry that a foot might crush
them
or a wild animal might destroy them.
She is harsh toward her young,
as if they were not her own.
She doesn’t care if they die.
For God has deprived her of wisdom.
He has given her no understanding.
But whenever she jumps up to run,
she passes the swiftest horse with
its rider.
“Have you given the horse its strength
or clothed its neck with a flowing mane?
Did you give it the ability to leap like a
locust?
Its majestic snorting is terrifying!
It paws the earth and rejoices in its strength
when it charges out to battle.
It laughs at fear and is unafraid.
It does not run from the sword.
The arrows rattle against it,
and the spear and javelin flash.
It paws the ground fiercely
and rushes forward into battle when the
ram’s horn blows.
It snorts at the sound of the horn.
It senses the battle in the distance.
It quivers at the captain’s commands and
the noise of battle.
“Is it your wisdom that makes the hawk soar
and spread its wings toward the south?
Is it at your command that the eagle rises
to the heights to make its nest?
It lives on the cliffs,
making its home on a distant, rocky crag.
From there it hunts its prey,
keeping watch with piercing eyes.
Its young gulp down blood.
Where there’s a carcass, there you’ll
find it.”
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Then the Lord said to Job,
“Do you still want to argue with the
Almighty?
You are God’s critic, but do you have the
answers?”
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Job Responds to the LORD
3 Then Job replied to the Lord,
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“I am nothing—how could I ever find the
answers?
I will cover my mouth with my hand.
I have said too much already.
I have nothing more to say.”