I will question you

Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion? v 31

Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs? Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth? v 33

Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water? v 34
Do you send the lightening bolts on their way? Do they report to you, “Here we are?” v 35

WHO ENDOWED the HEART with WISDOM
or gave UNDERSTANDING to the MIND? v 36
Who has the WISDOM to COUNT the CLOUDS? V 37

Who can tip over water jars of the heavens when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together? V 38

“Do you hunt the prey for the lioness
and satisfy the hunger of the lions
    when they crouch in their dens    
or lie in wait in a thicket?

Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the lions when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket? vs 38,39

Who provides food    for the raven    when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food? vs 39-41

“Do you ……
 know when the mountain goats    give birth?
watch when the doe bears her fawn?
count the months till they bear?
know the time they give birth?

They crouch down and bring forth their young; their labor pains are ended. Their young thrive and grow strong in the wilds; they leave and do not return. 39: 1-4

Who let the wild donkey  go free?
 Who untied its ropes?
I gave it the wasteland as its home, the salt flats  as its habitat.  It laughs at the commotion in the town; it does not hear a driver’s shout. It ranges the hills    for its pasture and searches for any green thing. 39: 5-8



Job 39:9-18
“Will the wild ox    consent to serve you? Will it stay by your manger    at night?
Can you hold it to the furrow with a harness? Will it till the valleys behind you?
Will you rely on it for its great strength?     Will you leave your heavy work to it?
    

Can you trust it to haul in your grain and bring it to your threshing floor?

    “The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully,
                though they cannot compare
                with the wings and feathers of the stork.

She lays her eggs on the ground
                and lets them warm in the sand,
    unmindful that a foot may crush them,
                that some wild animal may trample them.
    She treats her young harshly, 
as if they were she cares not that her labor was in vain,
    for God did not endow her with wisdom
         or give her a share of good sense.
    Yet when she spreads her feathers to run,
she laughs at horse and rider.

Job 39:19-25

 “Do you give the horse its strength
    or clothe its neck with a flowing mane?
 Do you make it leap like a locust,
    striking terror with its proud snorting?
 It paws fiercely, rejoicing in its strength,
    and charges into the fray.
 It laughs at fear, afraid of nothing;
    it does not shy away from the sword.
 The quiver rattles against its side,
    along with the flashing spear and lance.
In frenzied excitement it eats up the ground;
    it cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds.
 At the blast of the trumpet it snorts, ‘Aha!’
    It catches the scent of battle from afar,
    the shout of commanders and the battle cry.

 “Does the hawk take flight by your wisdom
    and spread its wings toward the south?
 Does the eagle soar at your command
    and build its nest on high?
 It dwells on a cliff and stays there at night;
    a rocky crag is its stronghold.
 From there it looks for food;
    its eyes detect it from afar.
 Its young ones feast on blood,
    and where the slain are, there it is.”