Job 39
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 39, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? {or} canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
Job 39:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Canst thou number the months {that} they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
Job 39:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
Job 39:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
Job 39:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
Job 39:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. {barren...: Heb. salt places}
Job 39:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. {of the driver: Heb. of the exactor}
Job 39:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The range of the mountains {is} his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Job 39:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
Job 39:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Job 39:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wilt thou trust him, because his strength {is} great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
Job 39:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather {it into} thy barn?
Job 39:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Gavest thou} the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? {wings and...: or, the feathers of the stork and ostrich}
Job 39:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
Job 39:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
Job 39:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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She is hardened against her young ones, as though {they were} not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
Job 39:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
Job 39:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
Job 39:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
Job 39:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils {is} terrible. {terrible: Heb. terror}
Job 39:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in {his} strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. {He paweth: or, His feet dig} {the armed...: Heb. the armour}
Job 39:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Job 39:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.
Job 39:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that {it is} the sound of the trumpet.
Job 39:24 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Job 39:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, {and} stretch her wings toward the south?
Job 39:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? {at...: Heb. by thy mouth}
Job 39:27 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
Job 39:28 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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From thence she seeketh the prey, {and} her eyes behold afar off.
Job 39:29 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain {are}, there {is} she.
Job 39:30 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.