Job 39 EASY

1. ‘Job, do you know that time when the goats on the mountains give birth? Do you watch the wild deer when their babies are born?

2. Can you count the number of months that these animals are pregnant? How long must they wait until they give birth?

3. They bend down low to the ground. They give birth to the babies that they have carried inside them.

4. The young animals grow and they become strong in the fields. Then they leave their parents and they do not return to them.

5. Did you send out the wild donkeys to go wherever they want?

6. No! It was me who gave them the desert as their home. I let them live in places where the ground has salt.

7. They stay far away from the busy cities. They do not allow anyone to make them work.

8. Instead, they live on the hills, where they find fresh plants to eat.

9. Can you tell a wild ox to work for you? No! At night, it will not stay to feed at your farm.

10. It will not let you tie it to a plough. It will not agree to prepare your fields in the valleys.

11. A wild ox is very strong. But you cannot trust it to help you with your difficult work.

12. It will not help you to bring in your harvest of grain. It will not take the grain to your threshing floor.

13. When an ostrich is happy, it waves its wings. But it cannot use its wings to fly, as a stork can do.

14. A mother ostrich leaves her eggs on the ground. She lets the sand cause them to be warm.

15. She does not realize that people or wild animals might break the eggs with their feet.

16. She does not take care of her babies, as if they did not belong to her. She does not worry that all her work might be useless.

17. This is because I did not give wisdom to ostriches. I did not give them minds that understand things.

18. But when an ostrich begins to run, it can run very fast. It can run faster than a horse and someone who rides on it.

19. Did you, Job, give horses their strength? Did you give them the long hair that they have on their necks?

20. You did not make horses able to jump like locusts. They frighten people when they blow air out through their noses.

21. They stamp their feet on the ground, as they prepare to go to a battle. They are ready to go and attack the enemy.

22. A horse is brave and it is not afraid of anything. It does not run away from the enemy's weapons.

23. The soldier who is riding it has his arrows ready at the horse's side. Swords and spears shine brightly in the sun.

24. The horse shakes with joy as it runs to the battle. When the battle trumpet makes its noise, the horse wants to run even faster!

25. When it hears the sound of the trumpet, it makes a happy noise. From far away, it recognizes the smell of the battle. It hears the army officers as they shout their commands.

26. Was it your wisdom, Job, that taught hawks how to fly? No! You could not teach them to fly towards the south in winter.

27. Do eagles wait for your command to fly high into the sky? No! You could not teach them how to build their nests high up in the mountains.

28. They live among the highest rocks. That is where they stay at night. They are safe on the sharp rocks.

29. From the high rocks, eagles look for their food. They see small animals far away, that they can catch and eat.

30. They come together around the bodies of dead animals. The young eagles drink the blood.’