Job 39 - EasyEnglish Bible 2024（EASY）

Chapter 39God asks Job questions about animals and birds

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?

2Can you count the number of months that these animals are pregnant?

How long must they wait until they give birth?

3They bend down low to the ground.

They give birth to the babies that they have carried inside them.

4The young animals grow

and they become strong in the fields.

Then they leave their parents

and they do not return to them.

5Did you send out the wild donkeys

to go wherever they want?

6No! It was me who gave them the desert as their home.

I let them live in places where the ground has salt.

7They stay far away from the busy cities.

They do not allow anyone to make them work.

8Instead, they live on the hills,

where they find fresh plants to eat.

9Can you tell a wild ox to work for you?

No! At night, it will not stay to feed at your farm.

10It will not let you tie it to a plough.

It will not agree to prepare your fields in the valleys.

11A wild ox is very strong.

But you cannot trust it to help you with your difficult work.

12It will not help you to bring in your harvest of grain.

It will not take the grain to your threshing floor.

13When an ostrich is happy,

it waves its wings.

But it cannot use its wings to fly,

as a stork can do.

14A mother ostrich leaves her eggs on the ground.

She lets the sand cause them to be warm.

15She does not realize that people or wild animals

might break the eggs with their feet.

16She 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.

17This is because I did not give wisdom to ostriches.

I did not give them minds that understand things.

18But when an ostrich begins to run,

it can run very fast.

It can run faster than a horse

and someone who rides on it.

19Did you, Job, give horses their strength?

Did you give them the long hair that they have on their necks?

20You did not make horses able to jump like locusts.

They frighten people when they blow air out through their noses.

21They stamp their feet on the ground,

as they prepare to go to a battle.

They are ready to go and attack the enemy.

22A horse is brave and it is not afraid of anything.

It does not run away from the enemy's weapons.

23The soldier who is riding it

has his arrows ready at the horse's side.

Swords and spears shine brightly in the sun.

24The horse shakes with joy

as it runs to the battle.

When the battle trumpet makes its noise,

the horse wants to run even faster!

25When 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.

26Was it your wisdom, Job, that taught hawks how to fly?

No! You could not teach them to fly towards the south in winter.

27Do 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.

28They live among the highest rocks.

That is where they stay at night.

They are safe on the sharp rocks.

29From the high rocks,

eagles look for their food.

They see small animals far away,

that they can catch and eat.

30They come together around the bodies of dead animals.

The young eagles drink the blood.’