Job 39 Cross References - NSB

¹ »Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the deer? ² »Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth, ³ when they crouch to give birth to their offspring, and are delivered of their young? ⁴ »Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth, and do not return to them. ⁵ »Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey? ⁶ »Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwelling? ⁷ »He scorns the tumult of the city. He does not heed the shouts of the driver. ⁸ »The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing. ⁹ »Will the wild ox be willing to serve you? Will he bed by your manger? ¹⁰ »Can you bind the wild bull in the furrow with ropes? Or will he plow the valleys behind you? ¹¹ »Will you rely on him for his great strength? Will you leave your heavy work to him? ¹² »Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor? ¹³ »The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but they cannot compare with the pinions and feathers of the stork. ¹⁴ »She lays her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand. ¹⁵ »She is unaware that a foot may crush them, that some wild animal may trample them. ¹⁶ »She treats her young cruelly, as if they were not hers. Even if her labor is in vain, she is unconcerned. ¹⁷ »This is because God has made her forget wisdom. He has not given her a share of understanding. ¹⁸ »When she lifts herself on high, she laughs at the horse and his rider. ¹⁹ »Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane? ²⁰ »Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrible. ²¹ »It paws in strength and finds joy in its power. It charges into battle. ²² »It laughs at fear, is afraid of nothing, and does not back away from swords. ²³ »A quiver of arrows rattles on it along with the flashing spear and javelin. ²⁴ »Anxious and excited, the horse eats up the ground and does not trust the sound of the ram's horn. ²⁵ »As often as the horn sounds, the horse says: Aha! And it smells the battle far away; the thundering orders of the captains and the battle cries. ²⁶ »Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and spreads its wings toward the south? ²⁷ »Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes its nest on high? ²⁸ »It lives on the rock and makes its home in the fastness of the rocky crag. ²⁹ »It spies the pray from there. Its eyes see it from far away. ³⁰ »Its young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there it is.

²⁶ Then God said: »Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.«

²⁸ God blessed them and said to them: »Be fruitful and increase in number. Fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and dominate the birds of the air. Have dominion over every living creature that moves on the ground.« ²⁹ Then God said: »I give you every plant that bears seed on the face of the entire earth. I also give you every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. ³⁰ »Also every beast of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground; everything that has the breath of life in it, I give every green plant for food.« It was so.

² »All the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air will be filled with fear and dread of you. Every creature that moves along the ground and all the fish of the sea are placed under your control.

¹² »He (Ishmael) will be a wild donkey of a man. His hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him. He will live in hostility toward all his brothers.«

²⁶ They loaded their grain on their donkeys and left.

¹⁴ »Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.

¹³ The slave bosses were hard on them. They kept saying: »Each day you have to make as many bricks as you did when you were given straw.« ¹⁴ The bosses beat the men in charge of the slaves and said: »Why did you not force the slaves to make as many bricks yesterday and today as they did before?« ¹⁵ Finally, the men in charge of the slaves went to the king and asked: »Why are you treating us like this? ¹⁶ »No one brings us any straw. Yet we are still ordered to make the same number of bricks. We are beaten with whips, and your own people are to blame.«

¹⁸ »Get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still make the same number of bricks.«

¹ Moses and the Israelites sang this song to Jehovah: »I will sing to Jehovah, because he has won a glorious victory. He has thrown the horses and their riders into the sea.

⁴ ‘You have seen what I did to Egypt and how I carried you on the wings of eagles and brought you to me.

¹³ »‘Here are the kinds of birds you must consider disgusting and must not eat. They are eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures,

¹⁹ storks, all types of herons, hoopoes, and bats.

¹¹ »He must offer the bull as a sacrifice to ask forgiveness for your own sins and for the sins of your family.

²² »God brings them out of Egypt. He is for them like the horns of the wild bull.

³⁰ King Sihon of Heshbon would not allow us to pass through. Jehovah your God made him stubborn and overconfident in order to hand him over to you, as he has now done.

⁵ the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope (chamois) and the mountain sheep.

¹⁵ and the ostrich, the owl, the sea gull, and the hawk in their kinds,

⁵⁶ »The kindest and most sensitive woman among you, so sensitive and tender that she would not even step on an ant, will become stingy toward the husband she loves or toward her own son or daughter. ⁵⁷ »She will not share with them the afterbirth from her body and the children she gives birth to. She will secretly eat them out of dire necessity. These are hardships your enemies will make you suffer during the blockade of your cities.

²³ »All its land is brimstone and salt. It is a burning waste, unsown and unproductive. No grass grows on it. Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his wrath.

¹⁷ »As the firstborn of his bulls, majesty is his. His horns are the horns of the wild bull. With them he will push the peoples, all at once, to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh.«

²² »Then the horses hooves thundered and his mighty steeds stamped the ground.

⁴ A fighter came out from the tents of the Philistines. His name was Goliath of Gath. He was over nine feet tall. ⁵ He had a headdress of copper on his head. He was dressed in a coat of metal that weighed one hundred twenty five pounds. ⁶ He had copper shin guards on his legs and on his back a copper javelin. ⁷ The shaft of his spear was like the beam used by weavers. The head of his spear was made of fifteen pounds of iron. The man who carried his shield walked ahead of him. ⁸ Goliath stood and called to the Israelites: »Why do you form a battle line? Am I not a Philistine? Are you Saul’s servants? Choose a man, and let him come down to fight me. ⁹ »If he can fight me and kill me we will be your slaves. But if I overpower him and kill him you will be our slaves and serve us.« ¹⁰ The Philistine added: »I challenge the Israelite battle line today. Send out a man so we can fight each other.«

² Saul led three thousand of Israel’s best soldiers out to look for David and his men near Wild Goat Rocks at En-Gedi.

⁴ Johathan tried to go over to the Philistines garrison between the passes. There was a rocky crag on each side. The name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other crag was Seneh.

⁴² The Philistine got a good look at David and he despised him. David was only a young man with a healthy complexion and good looks.

²⁶ With a heart full of love for her son the real mother said: »Please, Your Majesty, do not kill the child! Give it to her!« But the other woman said: »Do not give it to either of us cut it in two.« ²⁷ Then Solomon said: »Do not kill the child! Give it to the first woman. She is the real mother.«

²² For the king had Tarshish-ships at sea with the ships of Hiram. Once every three years the Tarshish-ships came with gold and silver and ivory and apes (monkeys) and peacocks.

²⁸ The king asked: »What is your trouble?« She answered: »The other day a woman suggested that we eat my child. Then we could eat her child the next day. ²⁹ »So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I told her that we would eat her son, but she had hidden him!«

²¹ »This is Jehovah’s message to Sennacherib: ‘My people, the virgin daughter of Zion, despise you and laugh at you. My people in Jerusalem shake their heads behind your back.

²¹ The king had ships going to Tarshish with Huram’s sailors. Once every three years the Tarshish ships would bring gold, silver, ivory, apes, and monkeys.

³¹ When the leaders of Babylon sent ambassadors to ask him about the miraculous sign that had happened in the land, God left him. God did this to test him, to find out everything that was in Hezekiah’s heart.

¹⁵ In those days, I saw in Judah some who were crushing grapes on the Sabbath, and harvesting grain and putting it on Asses; as well as wine and grapes and figs and all sorts of goods that they took into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. I gave witness against them on the day when they were marketing food.

¹⁴ a messenger came running to Job. »We were plowing the fields with the cattle,« he said, »and the donkeys were in a nearby pasture.

¹⁸ »Captives also enjoy their ease; they no longer hear the slave driver’s shout.

²² »You will laugh at destruction and starvation. You will not be afraid of wild beasts.

⁵ »Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass, or an ox bellow when it has fodder?

¹⁶ »If I called and he answered me, I would not believe that God was listening to my voice.

²⁶ »They pass by like swift ships, like an eagle swooping on its prey.

¹² »An empty headed man can no more become wise than a wild donkey’s colt can be born a man.

⁴ »You close their minds and hearts so that they cannot understand. That is why you will not honor them.

⁵ »Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their toil. They search in the wasteland food for their young.

²⁴ »I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They did not extinguish the light of my countenance.

²⁹ »I am a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.

²⁰ »Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man say that he would be swallowed up?

¹⁵ »Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you. It feeds on grass as cattle do.

²⁰ »The hills bring him their produce. All the wild animals play nearby. ²¹ »He lies under the lotus plants, hidden among the reeds in the marsh. ²² »The lotuses conceal him in their shadow. The poplars by the stream surround him.

⁵ »Will he make an agreement with you and promise to serve you forever?

²⁰ »Out of its nostrils comes smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. ²¹ »Its breath kindles coals, and a flame comes out of its mouth.

²⁶ »Though the sword reaches it, it does not avail, nor does the spear, the dart, or the javelin. ²⁷ »It considers iron to be like straw and bronze to be like rotten wood. ²⁸ »An arrow will not make it run away. Stones from a sling turn to dust against it. ²⁹ »It considers clubs to be like stubble, and it laughs at a rattling javelin.

²⁹ »It considers clubs to be like stubble, and it laughs at a rattling javelin.

³³ »Nothing on land can compare to it. It was made fearless.

¹¹ »Who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?

⁵ »Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey?

⁷ »He scorns the tumult of the city. He does not heed the shouts of the driver.

¹⁶ »She treats her young cruelly, as if they were not hers. Even if her labor is in vain, she is unconcerned.

¹⁸ »When she lifts herself on high, she laughs at the horse and his rider.

²² »It laughs at fear, is afraid of nothing, and does not back away from swords.

²⁵ »As often as the horn sounds, the horse says: Aha! And it smells the battle far away; the thundering orders of the captains and the battle cries.

⁵ It comes out of its chamber like a bridegroom. Like a champion, it is eager to run its course.

⁷ Some boast in chariots and others in horses, but we will boast in the name of Jehovah our God.

⁹ The voice of Jehovah makes the deer to calve and strips the forests bare. In His temple everything says: »Glory!«

¹⁶ A mighty army does not save the king. A warrior is not delivered by great strength. ¹⁷ A horse is a false hope for victory. It does not deliver anyone by its great strength.

²¹ Save me from the mouth of the lion and from the horns of wild oxen. You have answered me.

³ Let those who say: »Aha! Aha!« Be turned back because of their own shame.

¹⁰ But you exalt my horn (make me as strong) as a wild bull. I have been anointed with soothing lotion.

¹ Jehovah reigns and he is clothed with majesty. Jehovah has girded himself with strength. The world also is established, that it cannot be moved.

⁵ He satisfies you with good; your youth is renewed like the eagles.

¹ Bless Jehovah with all my being! O Jehovah my God, You are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty.

¹¹ They give drink to every beast of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

¹⁷ Where the birds build their nests, the stork, whose home is the fir tree. ¹⁸ The high mountains are for the wild goats. The cliffs are a refuge for the rock badgers.

²⁷ All of them wait for you to give them their food at the proper time. ²⁸ You give it to them, and they gather it up. You open your hand, and they are satisfied with many blessings.

³⁴ and fertile ground into a layer of salt because of the wickedness of the people living there.

³ »The plowers plowed upon my back. They lengthened their furrows.«

¹⁴ Let our cattle bear without mishap and without loss. Let there be no outcry in our streets!

¹⁵ The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due time. ¹⁶ You open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

¹⁶ Long life is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

¹⁰ He finds no joy in strong horses, nor do brave soldiers please him.

⁴ Where there are no cattle the crib is clean. The crop is abundant because of the strength of the bull.

³¹ The horse has prepared the day of battle. However, deliverance is from Jehovah.

⁵ Will you look for things that do not exist? Riches grow wings and fly away like a bird.

¹⁵ The labor of the foolish wearies everyone of them, because he does not know how to go to the city.

¹² ‘The flowers appear on the earth. The time of singing birds has come. The voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

¹¹ The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools. The wise counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh: »I am one of the wise men, a disciple of the ancient kings?« ¹² Where are your wise men now? Let them show you and make known what Jehovah of Hosts has purposed (planned) (resolved) against Egypt. ¹³ The officials of Zoan have become fools. The leaders of Memphis (Noph) are deceived. The cornerstones of her peoples have led Egypt astray. ¹⁴ Jehovah has poured into them a spirit of dizziness. They make Egypt stagger in all that she does, as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.

⁶ THE PROPHESY ABOUT THE BEASTS OF THE NEGEV (southern land): The Negev is a land of distress and anguish. Lions and lionesses live there. Vipers and poisonous snakes live there. They carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels to a nation that cannot help them.

¹⁶ You have said: »No, we will flee on horses.« So you flee. You added: »We will ride on fast horses.« So those who chase you will also be fast.

¹ How horrible it will be for those who go to Egypt for help! Cursed are those who rely on very strong warhorses, who depend on many chariots. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel. They do not seek Jehovah. ² He is wise and can bring about disaster. He does not take back his words. He rises against wicked people and against those who help troublemakers. ³ The Egyptians are humans, not God. Their horses are flesh and blood, not spirit. Jehovah will stretch out his powerful hand (extend his power). The one who gives help will stumble. The one who receives help will fall. Both will die together. ⁴ This is what Jehovah said to me: »A lion, even a young lion, growls over its prey when a crowd of shepherds is called to fight it. It is not frightened by their voices or disturbed by the noise they make. So Jehovah of Hosts will come to fight for Mount Zion and on its hill.

¹⁴ Because the palace has been abandoned, the populated city forsaken. Hill and watchtower have become caves forever. They will be a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks.

³ »The bull knows its owner, and donkey knows where its master feeds it. But Israel does not know. My people do not understand!«

³¹ »Those who hope in Jehovah will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary! They will walk and not be faint.«

¹ Bel bows down and Nebo stoops low. Their idols are borne by beasts of burden. The images that are carried about are burdensome. They are a burden for the weary.

¹⁷ Because of the iniquity of his covetousness gain I was angry and struck him. I hid and was angry. He went on backsliding in the way of his heart (his heart directed course of life).

³ »‘Why have we fasted and you do not see? Why have we humbled ourselves and you do not notice? Behold, on the day of your fast you find desire, and mistreat all your workers.’

²⁴ »You are like a wild donkey accustomed to the desert. You sniff at the wind while in heat. All who seek you will not get tired. They will find you during your monthly period.

¹⁹ O my anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain. My heart pounds in side of me. My heart is pounding! I cannot keep quiet because I hear a ram's horn sounding the alarm for war.

⁶ »I paid attention and listened, but they were not honest. They do not turn away from their wickedness. They do not ask: ‘What have we done?’ They go their own ways like horses charging into battle.’« ⁷ »Even storks know when it is time to return. Mourning doves, swallows (swifts), and cranes know when it is time to migrate. But my people do not know that I, Jehovah, am urging them to return.

¹⁶ From Dan is heard the snorting of his horses. At the sound of the neighing of his stallions the whole land quakes. For they come and devour the land and its fullness, the city and its inhabitants.

²³ This is what Jehovah says: »Do not let wise people brag about their wisdom. Do not let strong people brag about their strength. Do not let rich people brag about their riches.«

⁵ Even deer in the fields give birth and abandon their young because there is no grass. ⁶ Wild donkeys stand on the bare hills. They sniff the wind like jackals. Their eyesight fails because they have no green plants.

⁶ »He will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when prosperity comes. He will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, a land of salt without inhabitant.

³ Even the jackals of the wasteland have full breasts and give milk to their young ones. The daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the wasteland.

¹⁶ »You have frightened other people. Your arrogance has deceived you. You live on rocky cliffs and occupy the highest places in the hills. Even though you build your nest as high as an eagle, I will bring you down from there,« proclaims Jehovah.

²⁰ Look, O Jehovah! Why are you punishing us like this? Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved! Priests and prophets are killed in the Temple!

² »Son of man, because Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has opened to me. I will be filled, now that she is laid waste.’

² ‘»‘The Lord Jehovah says: »Because the enemy has spoken against you, aha! And the everlasting heights have become our possession.

¹⁷ »As for you, son of man, the Lord Jehovah says: ‘Speak to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: »Assemble and come, gather from every side to my sacrifice that I am going to sacrifice for you. It is a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. ¹⁸ »‘You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, as though they were rams, lambs, goats and bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.«’ ¹⁹ »‘You will eat fat until you are glutted, and drink blood until you are drunk; from my sacrifice I have sacrificed for you.«’

²¹ »He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts. His dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

¹¹ »But the water in the swamps and marshes will not become fresh. It will remain salty.

¹ »Sound the alarm on the trumpet. The enemy swoops down on Jehovah’s Temple like an eagle. The people of Israel have rejected my covenant promise and rebelled against my Law.

⁹ The people of Israel went to Assyria. They were like wild donkeys wandering off alone. The people of Ephraim sold themselves to their lovers.

¹⁰ »I will attack this sinful people and punish them. Nations will join together against them, and they will be punished for their many sins. ¹¹ »Ephraim was once like a well-trained young cow, ready and willing to thresh grain. But I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck and harness her for harder work. I made Judah pull the plow and Jacob pull the harrow.

⁵ »Like the noise of chariots they leap on the tops of the mountains. It is like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble. They are a strong people set in battle array.

¹³ »Consider this, I will weigh you down just as a wagon is weighed down when it is full of grain.

⁶ »Will the trumpet be blown in a city and the people not be afraid? Will disaster happen to a city and Jehovah not cause it?

⁴ »Even though you place yourself as high as the eagle, and though you nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there,« said Jehovah!

¹³ »Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O lady inhabitant of Lachish! You were the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion. The transgressions of Israel were found in you.

⁸ »Their horses are swifter than leopards. They are fiercer than the evening wolves. Their horsemen proudly press on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly like an eagle in a hurry to eat. ⁹ »They all come for violence. Their crowds look straight ahead and gather prisoners like the sand.

¹³ »Is it for Jehovah of Hosts that the peoples labor for the fire? Do the nations weary themselves for vanity?

¹⁹ »There is no grain left. The grapevines, fig trees, pomegranates, and olive trees have not yet produced. However from now on I will bless you.«

⁹ Two women came out with the wind in their wings. They had wings like the wings of a stork. They lifted up the ephah measure between earth and heaven.

³⁰ »‘Let both grow together until the harvest. In the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: »Gather weeds first, and bind them in bundles to burn them. Then gather the wheat into my barn.«’«

² »Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.«

²⁸ »The eagles will gather at the place of the carcass.

¹⁷ James the son of Zebedee, John the brother of James surnamed Boanerges, which is, Sons of thunder:

³⁷ They asked him: »Where, Lord?« And he said to them: »Where the body is the eagles will also gather.«

⁴¹ While they still did not believe him but were filled with joy and wonder, he asked for something to eat.

³¹ without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, and unmerciful.

¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. It comes down from the Father of lights (truth and spiritual purity), with whom there is no variation. He does not change like shifting shadows.