Job 39:2

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Do you count the months they must fulfill, and do you know the time they give birth?

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  • Jer 2:24 : 24 You are like a wild female donkey brought up in the wilderness. In her lust she sniffs the wind to get the scent of a male. No one can hold her back when she is in heat. None of the males need wear themselves out chasing after her. At mating time she is easy to find.

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  • 1“Are you acquainted with the way the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?

  • Job 39:3-5
    3 verses
    81%

    3They crouch, they bear their young, they bring forth the offspring they have carried.

    4Their young grow strong, and grow up in the open; they go off, and do not return to them.

    5Who let the wild donkey go free? Who released the bonds of the donkey,

  • Job 38:20-22
    3 verses
    75%

    20that you may take them to their borders and perceive the pathways to their homes?

    21You know, for you were born before them; and the number of your days is great!

    22Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail,

  • Job 38:37-40
    4 verses
    74%

    37Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,

    38when the dust hardens into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?

    39“Do you hunt prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of the lions,

    40when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?

  • Job 38:31-34
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    31Can you tie the bands of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion?

    32Can you lead out the constellations in their seasons, or guide the Bear with its cubs?

    33Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?

    34Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

  • Job 39:9-16
    8 verses
    71%

    9Is the wild ox willing to be your servant? Will it spend the night at your feeding trough?

    10Can you bind the wild ox to a furrow with its rope, will it till the valleys, following after you?

    11Will you rely on it because its strength is great? Will you commit your labor to it?

    12Can you count on it to bring in your grain, and gather the grain to your threshing floor?

    13“The wings of the ostrich flap with joy, but are they the pinions and plumage of a stork?

    14For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and lets them be warmed on the soil.

    15She forgets that a foot might crush them, or that a wild animal might trample them.

    16She is harsh with her young, as if they were not hers; she is unconcerned about the uselessness of her labor.

  • 5Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.

  • 10Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry.

  • 9“Do I bring a baby to the birth opening and then not deliver it?” asks the LORD.“Or do I bring a baby to the point of delivery and then hold it back?” asks your God.

  • Job 37:15-16
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    15Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

    16Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?

  • 4God’s questions to Job“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!

  • 24You are like a wild female donkey brought up in the wilderness. In her lust she sniffs the wind to get the scent of a male. No one can hold her back when she is in heat. None of the males need wear themselves out chasing after her. At mating time she is easy to find.

  • Job 39:19-20
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    69%

    19“Do you give the horse its strength? Do you clothe its neck with a mane?

    20Do you make it leap like a locust? Its proud neighing is terrifying!

  • 20For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play.

  • 23Pay careful attention to the condition of your flocks, set your mind on your herds,

  • Job 38:28-29
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    69%

    28Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

    29From whose womb does the ice emerge, and the frost from the sky, who gives birth to it,

  • 7Knowledge of God’s Wisdom“But now, ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.

  • 5Just as you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones form in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

  • 27All of your creatures wait for you to provide them with food on a regular basis.

  • 5Even the doe abandons her newborn fawn in the field because there is no grass.

  • 8“Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,

  • 7“Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

  • 18Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all!

  • 5Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

  • 12Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,

  • 3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

  • 1The Description of Leviathan(40:25)“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope?

  • 5Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls?

  • 11who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

  • 4“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,