1156 - The Lord’s Challenge to Job Continues
The Lord’s Challenge to Job Continues
“Do you know when the wild goats give birth?
Have you watched, as deer are born in the wild?
Do you know how many months they carry their young?
Are you aware, of the time of their delivery?
They crouch down, to give birth to their young, and deliver their offspring.
Their young grow up, in the open fields, then leave home, and never return.
“Who gives the wild donkey its freedom?
Who untied its ropes?
I have placed it, in the wilderness;
its home is the wasteland.
It hates the noise of the city, and has no driver, to shout at it.
The mountains are its pastureland, that is where it searches for every blade of grass.
“Will the wild ox consent, to be tamed?
Will it spend the night, in your stall?
Can you hitch a wild ox, to a plow?
Will it plow a field, for you?
Given its strength, …can you trust it?
Can you leave, and trust, the ox to do your work?
Can you rely on it, to bring home your grain, and deliver it, to your threshing floor?
“The ostrich flaps her wings, grandly, but they are no match, for the feathers of the stork.
She lays her eggs, on top of the earth, letting them be warmed, in the dust.
She doesn’t worry, that a foot might crush them, or that a wild animal might destroy them.
She is harsh toward her young, as if they were not her own.
She doesn’t care if they die.
For God has deprived her, of wisdom.
He has given her no understanding.
But whenever she jumps up, to run, she passes the swiftest horse, with its rider.
Tyndale House Publishers.
Job 39:1-18
Praise be to God!
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