Daily Bible CEV September 25 Verses

The LORD Continues

When Do Mountain Goats Give Birth?

Job 39 When do mountain goats and deer give birth?

Have you been there when their young are born?

^*2How long are they pregnant ³before they deliver?

⁴Soon their young grow strong and then leave

to be on their own.

⁵Who set wild donkeys free?

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I alone help them survive in salty desert sand.

⁷They stay far from crowded cities and refuse to be tamed.

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Instead, they roam the hills, searching for pastureland.

⁹Would a wild ox agree to live in your barn

and labor for you?

¹⁰Could you force him to plow or to drag a heavy log

to smooth out the soil?

¹¹Can you depend on him to use his great strength

and do your heavy work?

¹²Can you trust him to harvest your grain

or take it to your barn from the threshing place?

An Ostrich Proudly Flaps Her Wings

¹³An ostrich proudly flaps her wings,

but not because she loves her young.

¹⁴She abandons her eggs

and lets the dusty ground keep them warm.

¹⁵And she doesn't seem to worry

that the feet of an animal could crush them all.

¹⁶She treats her eggs as though they were not her own,

unconcerned that her work might be for nothing.

¹⁷I myself made her foolish and without common sense.

¹⁸But once she starts running,

she laughs at a rider on the fastest horse.

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