Job 39 - Easy To Read Version

¹ “Job, do you know when\par the mountain goats are born?\par Do you watch when the mother deer\par has her baby?\par

² Do you know how many months\par the mountain goat and the deer\par must carry their babies?\par Do you know when it is the right time\par for them to be born?\par

³ Those animals lie down\par they feel their birth pains\par and their babies are born.\par

⁴ Those baby animals grow strong\par in the fields.\par Then they leave their mothers\par and never come back.\par

⁵ “Job, who let the wild donkeys go free?\par Who untied their ropes\par and let them loose?\par

⁶ I (God) let the wild donkey\par have the desert for a home.\par I gave the salt lands to them\par for a place to live.\par

⁷ Wild donkeys laugh at the noisy towns.\par And no person can control them.\par

⁸ Wild donkeys live in the mountains.\par That is their pasture.\par That is where they look for food to eat.\par

⁹ “Job, will a wild bull\par agree to serve you?\par Will he stay in your barn at night?\par

¹⁰ Will a wild bull\par let you put ropes on him\par so you can plow your fields?\par

¹¹ A wild bull is very strong!\par But can you trust him to do your work?\par

¹² Can you trust him\par to gather your grain and bring it\par to your threshing {\cf2\super [88]} place?\par

¹³ “An ostrich gets excited\par and flaps his wings.\par \{But an ostrich can’t fly.\}\par Its wings and feathers are not like\par the wings of a stork.\par

¹⁴ An ostrich lays her eggs on the ground\par and they become warm in the sand.\par

¹⁵ The ostrich forgets\par that someone might walk on her eggs\par or that some wild animal might break them.\par

¹⁶ An Ostrich leaves her little babies.\par She treats them like they are not hers.\par If her babies die, she doesn’t care\par that all her work was for nothing.\par

¹⁷ Why? Because I (God) didn’t give wisdom to the ostrich.\par The ostrich is foolish,\par and I made her that way.\par

¹⁸ But when the ostrich gets up to run,\par she laughs at the horse and its rider,\par because she can run faster than any horse.\par

¹⁹ “Job, did you give the horse its strength?\par Did you put the mane {\cf2\super [89]} on his neck?\par

²⁰ Did you make the horse able to\par jump far like a locust?\par The horse snorts {\cf2\super [90]} loudly,\par and it scares people.\par

²¹ A horse is happy that he is so strong.\par He scratches the ground with his foot\par and runs quickly into battle.\par

²² The horse laughs at fear.\par He is not afraid!\par He won’t run away from a battle.\par

²³ The soldier’s quiver {\cf2\super [91]} shakes\par on the horse’s side.\par The spear and weapons his rider carries\par shine in the sun.\par

²⁴ The horse is very excited!\par He runs fast over the ground. {\cf2\super [92]} \par When the horse hears the trumpet blow\par he can’t stand still.\par

²⁵ When the trumpet sounds,\par the horse shouts, ‘hurray!’\par He smells the battle from far away.\par He hears the commanders shouting orders\par and all the other sounds of the battle.\par

²⁶ “Job, did you teach the hawk\par how to spread his wings and fly south. {\cf2\super [93]} \par

²⁷ Are you the one who told the eagle {\cf2\super [94]} \par to fly high into the sky.\par Did you tell him to build his nest\par high in the mountains?\par

²⁸ The eagle lives on a cliff.\par The cliff is the eagle’s fortress. {\cf2\super [95]} \par

²⁹ An eagle watches for his food\par from high in his fortress.\par An eagle can see food that is far away.\par

³⁰ Eagles will gather where the dead bodies are.\par