Ketuvim

Iyov / איּוב

Job Chapter 39

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Adonay asserts His Omnipotence

39:1"Do you know the time when the wild mountain goats bear young? Or can you mark when the deer gives birth?

39:2Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they bear young?

39:3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.

39:4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not to them.

39:5 "Who set the wild donkey free? Who loosed the bonds of the wild donkey,

39:6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

39:7 He scorns the multitude of the city; He does not heed the shouts of the driver.

39:8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searches after every green thing.

39:9 "Will the wild ox be willing to serve you? Will he bed by your manger?

39:10 Can you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes? Or will he plow the valleys behind you?

39:11 Will you trust him, because his strength [is] great? or will you leave your labour to him?

39:12 Will you believe him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather [it into] your barn?

39:13 "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, But are her wings and pinions like the kindly stork's?

39:14 Which leaves her eggs in the earth, and warms them in dust,

39:15And forgets that the foot may crush them, or that a wild beast may break them.

39:16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without concern;

39:17 Because Elo'ah (אלוהּ) has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

39:18 What time she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.

39:19 "Have you given the horse strength? Have you clothed his neck with thunder?

39:20 Can you frighten him like arbeh (locust)? His majestic snorting strikes terror.

39:21 He paws in the valley, and rejoices in [his] strength: he goes on to meet the armed men.

39:22 He mocks at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turns he back from the sword.

39:23 The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the shield.

39:24 He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believes he that [it is] the sound of the shofar.

39:25 When the shofar sounds, he says 'Aha!' He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

39:26 "Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south?

39:27 Does the eagle mount up at your command, and make her nest on high?

39:28 She dwells and abides on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.

39:29 From there it spies out the prey; Its eyes observe from afar.

39:30 Its young ones suck up blood; And where the slain are, there it is."


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Re'em also called Reëm (Hebrew: רֶאֵם), is mentioned nine times in the Hebrew Scripture, meaning wild ox(Ivob 39:9-10, Devarim 33:17, Bamidbar 23:22 and 24:8; Tehillim 22:21, 29:6 and 92:10; and Yeshayahu 34:7). U'NICORN (wild Ox), noun [Latin unicornis; unus, one, and cornu, horn.] an animal with one horn; the monoceros. this name is often applied to the rhinoceros.