Job 39 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Job 39

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13“The ostrich’s wings flap wildly,

though its pinions lack plumage.

14For it leaves its eggs to the earth

and lets them be warmed on the ground,

15forgetting that a foot may crush them

and that a wild animal may trample them.

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it laughs at the horse and its rider.

19 violently, exults mightily;

it goes out to meet the weapons.

22It laughs at fear and is not dismayed;

it does not turn back from the sword.

23Upon it rattle the quiver,

the flashing spear, and the javelin.

24 Jer 4.19; Ezek 7.14; Am 3.6 With fierceness and rage it swallows the ground;

it cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

25 Josh 6.5; Am 1.14; 2.2 When the trumpet sounds, it says ‘Aha!’

From a distance it smells the battle,

the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

26“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars

and spreads its wings toward the south?

27 Jer 49.16; Ob 4 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up

and makes its nest on high?

28It lives on the rock and makes its home

in the fastness of the rocky crag.

29 Job 9.26 From there it spies the prey;

its eyes see it from far away.

30 Mt 24.28; Lk 17.37 Its young ones suck up blood,

and where the slain are, there it is.”