New Living Translation

Job 39:1-13 New Living Translation (NLT)

1. “Do you know when the wild goats give birth?Have you watched as deer are born in the wild?

2. Do you know how many months they carry their young?Are you aware of the time of their delivery?

3. They crouch down to give birth to their youngand deliver their offspring.

4. Their young grow up in the open fields,then leave home and never return.

5. “Who gives the wild donkey its freedom?Who untied its ropes?

6. I have placed it in the wilderness;its home is the wasteland.

7. It hates the noise of the cityand has no driver to shout at it.

8. The mountains are its pastureland,where it searches for every blade of grass.

9. “Will the wild ox consent to being tamed?Will it spend the night in your stall?

10. Can you hitch a wild ox to a plow?Will it plow a field for you?

11. Given its strength, can you trust it?Can you leave and trust the ox to do your work?

12. Can you rely on it to bring home your grainand deliver it to your threshing floor?

13. “The ostrich flaps her wings grandly,but they are no match for the feathers of the stork.