Job 39:1-30 GNT

[1] Do you know when mountain goats are born? Have you watched wild deer give birth? [2] Do you know how long they carry their young? Do you know the time for their birth? [3] Do you know when they will crouch down and bring their young into the world? [4] In the wilds their young grow strong; they go away and don't come back. [5] Who gave the wild donkeys their freedom? Who turned them loose and let them roam? [6] I gave them the desert to be their home, and let them live on the salt plains. [7] They keep far away from the noisy cities, and no one can tame them and make them work. [8] The mountains are the pastures where they feed, where they search for anything green to eat. [9] Will a wild ox work for you? Is he willing to spend the night in your stable? [10] Can you hold one with a rope and make him plow? Or make him pull a harrow in your fields? [11] Can you rely on his great strength and expect him to do your heavy work? [12] Do you expect him to bring in your harvest and gather the grain from your threshing place? [13] How fast the wings of an ostrich beat! But no ostrich can fly like a stork. [14] The ostrich leaves her eggs on the ground for the heat in the soil to warm them. [15] She is unaware that a foot may crush them or a wild animal break them. [16] She acts as if the eggs were not hers, and is unconcerned that her efforts were wasted. [17] It was I who made her foolish and did not give her wisdom. [18] But when she begins to run, she can laugh at any horse and rider. [19] Was it you, Job, who made horses so strong and gave them their flowing manes? [20] Did you make them leap like locusts and frighten people with their snorting? [21] They eagerly paw the ground in the valley; they rush into battle with all their strength. [22] They do not know the meaning of fear, and no sword can turn them back. [23] The weapons which their riders carry rattle and flash in the sun. [24] Trembling with excitement, the horses race ahead; when the trumpet blows, they can't stand still. [25] At each blast of the trumpet they snort; they can smell a battle before they get near, and they hear the officers shouting commands. [26] Does a hawk learn from you how to fly when it spreads its wings toward the south? [27] Does an eagle wait for your command to build its nest high in the mountains? [28] It makes its home on the highest rocks and makes the sharp peaks its fortress. [29] From there it watches near and far for something to kill and eat. [30] Around dead bodies the eagles gather, and the young eagles drink the blood.