Job 39 Geneva Bible (1599)
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
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- Original 16th-century spelling.
1 Wilt thou hunt the pray for the lyon? or fill the appetite of the lyons whelpes,
1 “Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
2 When they couch in their places, and remaine in the couert to lye in waite?
2 Can you count the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?
3 Who prepareth for the rauen his meate, when his birdes crie vnto God, wandering for lacke of meate?
3 They bow themselves. They bear their young. They end their labor pains.
4 Knowest thou the time when the wilde goates bring foorth yong? or doest thou marke when the hindes doe calue?
4 Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go out, and don’t return again.
5 Canst thou nomber the moneths that they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth?
5 “Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
6 They bow them selues: they bruise their yong and cast out their sorowes.
6 whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?
7 Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them.
7 He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.
8 Who hath set the wilde asse at libertie? or who hath loosed the bondes of the wilde asse?
8 The range of the mountains is his pasture. He searches after every green thing.
9 It is I which haue made the wildernesse his house, and the salt places his dwellings.
9 “Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
10 He derideth the multitude of the citie: he heareth not the crie of the driuer.
10 Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?
11 He seeketh out the mountaine for his pasture, and searcheth after euery greene thing.
11 Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?
12 Will the vnicorne serue thee? or will he tary by thy cribbe?
12 Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?
13 Canst thou binde the vnicorne with his band to labour in the furrowe? or will he plowe the valleyes after thee?
13 “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the feathers and plumage of love?
14 Wilt thou trust in him, because his strength is great, and cast off thy labour vnto him?
14 For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,
15 Wilt thou beleeue him, that he will bring home thy seede, and gather it vnto thy barne?
15 and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.
16 Hast thou giuen the pleasant wings vnto the peacockes? or winges and feathers vnto the ostriche?
16 She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
17 Which leaueth his egges in the earth, and maketh them hote in the dust,
17 because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
18 And forgetteth that the foote might scatter the, or that the wild beast might breake the.
18 When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.
19 He sheweth himselfe cruell vnto his yong ones, as they were not his, and is without feare, as if he trauailed in vaine.
19 “Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?
20 For God had depriued him of wisedom, and hath giuen him no part of vnderstanding.
20 Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.
21 When time is, he mounteth on hie: he mocketh the horse and his rider.
21 He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.
22 Hast thou giuen the horse strength? or couered his necke with neying?
22 He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn back from the sword.
23 Hast thou made him afraid as the grashopper? his strong neying is fearefull.
23 The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.
24 He diggeth in the valley, and reioyceth in his strength: he goeth foorth to meete the harnest man.
24 He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
25 He mocketh at feare, and is not afraid, and turneth not backe from the sworde,
25 As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
26 Though the quiuer rattle against him, the glittering speare and the shield.
26 “Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?
27 He swalloweth the ground for fearcenes and rage, and he beleeueth not that it is the noise of the trumpet.
27 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?
28 He sayth among the trumpets, Ha, ha: hee smellleth the battell afarre off, and the noyse of the captaines, and the shouting.
28 On the cliff he dwells and makes his home, on the point of the cliff and the stronghold.
29 Shall the hauke flie by thy wisedome, stretching out his wings toward the South?
29 From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.
30 Doeth the eagle mount vp at thy commandement, or make his nest on hie?
30 His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is.”
31 Shee abideth and remaineth in the rocke, euen vpon the toppe of the rocke, and the tower.
31 Not in this translation
32 From thence she spieth for meate, and her eyes beholde afarre off.
32 Not in this translation
33 His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where the slaine are, there is she.
33 Not in this translation
34 Moreouer ye Lord spake vnto Iob, and said,
34 Not in this translation
35 Is this to learne to striue with the Almightie? he that reprooueth God, let him answere to it.
35 Not in this translation
36 Then Iob answered the Lord, saying,
36 Not in this translation
37 Beholde, I am vile: what shall I answere thee? I will lay mine hand vpon my mouth.
37 Not in this translation
38 Once haue I spoken, but I will answere no more, yea twise, but I will proceede no further.
38 Not in this translation
Cross references (26)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 29:9; Psalm 104:18; 1 Samuel 24:2; Deuteronomy 14:5; Jeremiah 14:5
- 2 Jeremiah 2:24
- 5 Job 24:5; Job 11:12; Job 6:5; Psalm 104:11; Daniel 5:21
- 6 Psalm 107:34; Deuteronomy 29:23; Jeremiah 2:24; Job 24:5; Jeremiah 17:6
- 7 Exodus 5:18; Job 3:18; Isaiah 58:3; Exodus 5:13–16; Job 39:18
- 8 Psalm 104:27–28; Psalm 145:15–16; Job 40:20–22; Job 40:15; Genesis 1:29–30
- 9 Numbers 23:22; Psalm 92:10; Deuteronomy 33:17; Psalm 22:21; Isaiah 1:3
- 10 Psalm 129:3; Job 39:5; Job 39:7; Micah 1:13; Hosea 10:10–11
- 11 Isaiah 30:6; Isaiah 31:1–3; Psalm 20:7; Proverbs 14:4; Genesis 1:28
- 12 Haggai 2:19; Amos 2:13; Matthew 3:2; Nehemiah 13:15; Proverbs 3:16
- 13 Jeremiah 8:7; Zechariah 5:9; 2 Chronicles 9:21; Psalm 104:17; Leviticus 11:19
- 16 Lamentations 4:3; Ecclesiastes 10:15; Romans 1:31; Deuteronomy 28:56–57; 2 Kings 6:28–29
- 17 Job 35:11; James 1:17; Isaiah 57:17; 2 Chronicles 32:31; Deuteronomy 2:30
- 18 2 Kings 19:21; Job 5:22; Job 41:29; Job 39:22; Job 39:7
- 19 Psalm 147:10; Psalm 93:1; Psalm 104:1; Job 39:25; Exodus 15:1
- 20 Jeremiah 8:16; Joel 2:5; Job 41:20–21
- 21 Jeremiah 8:6; 1 Samuel 17:4–10; Judges 5:22; Psalm 19:5; 1 Samuel 17:42
- 22 Job 41:33; Job 39:18; Job 39:16
- 23 Job 41:26–29
- 24 Jeremiah 4:19; Job 9:16; Job 37:20; Amos 3:6; Job 29:24
- 25 Ezekiel 36:2; Ezekiel 26:2; Psalm 70:3
- 26 Song of Songs 2:12; Leviticus 16:11; Deuteronomy 14:15; Jeremiah 8:7
- 27 Jeremiah 49:16; Obadiah 4; Exodus 19:4; Isaiah 40:31; Hosea 8:1
- 28 1 Samuel 14:4
- 29 Job 9:26
- 30 Matthew 24:28; Luke 17:37; Ezekiel 39:17–19
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