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# Job 39

Job 39 is chapter 39 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 35 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The wonders of the power and providence of God in many of his creatures.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 39 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Do you know at what time the wild goats have given birth among the rocks, or do you observe the deer when they go into labor?
2. Have you numbered the months since their conception, and do you know at what time they gave birth?
3. They bend themselves for their offspring, and they give birth, and they emit roars.
4. Their young are weaned and go out to feed; they depart and do not return to them.
5. Who has set the wild ass free, and who has released his bonds?
6. I have given a house in solitude to him, and his tabernacle is in the salted land.
7. He despises the crowded city; he does not pay attention to the bellow of the tax collector.
8. He looks around the mountains of his pasture, and he searches everywhere for green plants.
9. Will the rhinoceros be willing to serve you, and will he remain in your stall?
10. Can you detain the rhinoceros with your harness to plough for you, and will he loosen the soil of the furrows behind you?
11. Will you put your faith in his great strength, and delegate your labors to him?
12. Will you trust him to return to you the seed, and to gather it on your drying floor?
13. The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.
14. When she leaves eggs behind in the earth, will you perhaps warm them in the dust?
15. She forgets that feet may trample them, or that the beasts of the field may shatter them.
16. She is hardened against her young, as if they were not hers; she has labored in vain, with no fear compelling her.
17. For God has deprived her of wisdom; neither has he given her understanding.
18. Yet, when the time is right, she raises her wings on high; she ridicules the horse and his rider.
19. Will you supply strength to the horse, or envelope his throat with neighing?
20. Will you alarm him as the locusts do? His panic is revealed by the display of his nostrils.
21. He digs at the earth with his hoof; he jumps around boldly; he advances to meet armed men.
22. He despises fear; he does not turn away from the sword.
23. Above him, the quiver rattles, the spear and the shield shake.
24. Seething and raging, he drinks up the earth; neither does he pause when the blast of the trumpet sounds.
25. When he hears the bugle, he says, “Ha!” He smells the battle from a distance, the exhortation of the officers, and the battle cry of the soldiers.
26. Does the hawk grow feathers by means of your wisdom, spreading her wings towards the south?
27. Will the eagle lift herself up at your command and make her nest in steep places?
28. She dwells among the rocks, and she lingers among broken boulders and inaccessible cliffs.
29. From there, she looks for food, and her eyes catch sight of it from far away.
30. Her young will drink blood, and wherever the carcass will be, she is there immediately.
31. And the Lord continued, and he said to Job:
32. Will he who contends with God be so easily silenced? Certainly, he who argues with God must also respond to him.
33. Then Job answered the Lord, saying:
34. What could I possibly answer, since I have been speaking thoughtlessly? I will place my hand over my mouth.
35. One thing I have spoken, which I wish I had not said; and another, to which I will add no more.

## Job 39 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Numquid nosti tempus partus ibicum in petris, vel parturientes cervas observasti?
2. Dinumerasti menses conceptus earum, et scisti tempus partus earum?
3. Incurvantur ad fœtum, et pariunt, et rugitus emittunt.
4. Separantur filii earum, et pergunt ad pastum: egrediuntur, et non revertuntur ad eas.
5. Quis dimisit onagrum liberum, et vincula ejus quis solvit?
6. cui dedi in solitudine domum, et tabernacula ejus in terra salsuginis.
7. Contemnit multitudinem civitatis: clamorem exactoris non audit.
8. Circumspicit montes pascuæ suæ, et virentia quæque perquirit.
9. Numquid volet rhinoceros servire tibi, aut morabitur ad præsepe tuum?
10. Numquid alligabis rhinocerota ad arandum loro tuo, aut confringet glebas vallium post te?
11. Numquid fiduciam habebis in magna fortitudine ejus, et derelinques ei labores tuos?
12. Numquid credes illi quod sementem reddat tibi, et aream tuam congreget?
13. Penna struthionis similis est pennis herodii et accipitris.
14. Quando derelinquit ova sua in terra, tu forsitan in pulvere calefacies ea?
15. Obliviscitur quod pes conculcet ea, aut bestia agri conterat.
16. Duratur ad filios suos, quasi non sint sui: frustra laboravit, nullo timore cogente.
17. Privavit enim eam Deus sapientia, nec dedit illi intelligentiam.
18. Cum tempus fuerit, in altum alas erigit: deridet equum et ascensorem ejus.
19. Numquid præbebis equo fortitudinem, aut circumdabis collo ejus hinnitum?
20. Numquid suscitabis eum quasi locustas? gloria narium ejus terror.
21. Terram ungula fodit; exultat audacter: in occursum pergit armatis.
22. Contemnit pavorem, nec cedit gladio.
23. Super ipsum sonabit pharetra; vibrabit hasta et clypeus:
24. fervens et fremens sorbet terram, nec reputat tubæ sonare clangorem.
25. Ubi audierit buccinam, dicit: Vah! procul odoratur bellum: exhortationem ducum, et ululatum exercitus.
26. Numquid per sapientiam tuam plumescit accipiter, expandens alas suas ad austrum?
27. Numquid ad præceptum tuum elevabitur aquila, et in arduis ponet nidum suum?
28. In petris manet, et in præruptis silicibus commoratur, atque inaccessis rupibus.
29. Inde contemplatur escam, et de longe oculi ejus prospiciunt.
30. Pulli ejus lambent sanguinem: et ubicumque cadaver fuerit, statim adest.
31. Et adjecit Dominus, et locutus est ad Job:
32. Numquid qui contendit cum Deo, tam facile conquiescit? utique qui arguit Deum, debet respondere ei.
33. Respondens autem Job Domino, dixit:
34. Qui leviter locutus sum, respondere quid possum? manum meam ponam super os meum.
35. Unum locutus sum, quod utinam non dixissem: et alterum, quibus ultra non addam.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 34: If we discuss all Job's words (saith St. Gregory), we shall find nothing impiously spoken; as may be gathered from the words of the Lord himself, chap. 42, ver. 7, 8; but what was reprehensible in him, was the manner of expressing himself at times, speaking too much of his own affliction, and too little of God's goodness towards him, which here he acknowledges as inconsiderate.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).