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Speaker 1: I'm John Stangey, and today we're in Job chapter thirty nine,

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Speaker 1: and we'll be reading from the New English translation. Are

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Speaker 1: you acquainted with the way the mountain goat gives birth?

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Speaker 1: Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to

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Speaker 1: their young? Do you count the months they must fulfill?

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Speaker 1: And do you know the time they give birth? They crouch,

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Speaker 1: they bear their young, They bring forth the offspring they

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Speaker 1: have carried. Their young grow strong and grow up in

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Speaker 1: the open. They go off and do not return to them?

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Speaker 1: Who let the wild donkey go free? Who released the

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Speaker 1: bonds of the donkey to whom I appointed the step

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Speaker 1: for its home? The salt wastes as its dwelling place.

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Speaker 1: It scorns the tumult in the town. It does not

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Speaker 1: hear the shouts of a driver. It ranges the hills

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Speaker 1: as its pasture, and searches after every green plant. Is

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Speaker 1: the wild ox willing to be your servant? Will it

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Speaker 1: spend the night at your feeding trough? Can you bind

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Speaker 1: the wild ox to a furrow? With its rope. Will

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Speaker 1: it till the valleys following after you? Will you rely

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Speaker 1: on it because its strength is great? Will you commit

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Speaker 1: your labor to it? Can you count on it to

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Speaker 1: bring in your grain? And gather the grain to your

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Speaker 1: threshing floor. The wings of the ostrich flap with joy.

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Speaker 1: But are they the pinions and plumage of a stork.

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Speaker 1: For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets

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Speaker 1: them be warmed on the soil. She forgets that a

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Speaker 1: foot might crush them, or that a wild animal might

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Speaker 1: trample them. She is harsh with her young, as if

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Speaker 1: they were not hers. She is unconcerned about the uselessness

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Speaker 1: of her labor, for God deprived her of wisdom and

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Speaker 1: did not impart understanding to her. But as soon as

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Speaker 1: she springs up, she laughs at the horse and its rider.

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Speaker 1: Do you give the horse its strength? Do you clothe

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Speaker 1: like a locust? Its proud nang is terrifying. It paused

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Speaker 1: the ground in the valley, exulting mightily. It goes out

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Speaker 1: to meet the weapons. It laughs at fear and is

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Speaker 1: not dismayed. It does not shy away from the sword

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Speaker 1: on it. The quiver rattles, the lance and javelin flash.

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Speaker 1: In excitement and impatience, it consumes the ground cannot stand

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Speaker 1: still when the trumpet is blown. At the sound of

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Speaker 1: the trumpet, it says aha, and from a distance it

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Speaker 1: catches the scent of battle. The thunder is shouting of commanders,

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Speaker 1: and the battle cries. Is it by your understanding that

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Speaker 1: the hawk soars and spreads its wings toward the south.

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Speaker 1: Is it at your command that the eagle soars and

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Speaker 1: builds its nest on high It lives on a rock

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Speaker 1: and spends the night there on a rocky crag and

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Speaker 1: a fortress. From there it spots its prey. Its eyes

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Speaker 1: gaze intently from a distance, and its young ones devour

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Speaker 1: the blood. And where the dead carcasses are there it

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Speaker 1: is let's pray. Lord, We thank you for your word,

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Speaker 1: and we thank you for the privilege of being able

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Speaker 1: to look at it together today. And Lord again, we

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Speaker 1: see from this portion of scripture the demons of your wisdom,

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Speaker 1: and the contrast to job esteeming his own wisdom and understanding. Lord,

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Speaker 1: we know that all wisdom is ultimately found in you.

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Speaker 1: You are the source of truth, and this scripture reminds

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Speaker 1: us to be humble before you and to trust your judgment. Lord.

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Speaker 1: We know that that's something that you teach us to value.

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Speaker 1: As we come to faith in your son, Jesus Christ,

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Speaker 1: you help us to recognize that our wisdom and our

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Speaker 1: strength is not sufficient for what we need. We need

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Speaker 1: what comes from you through faith in your son. So

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Speaker 1: we're grateful, Lord that you provide that. We're grateful Lord

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Speaker 1: that you're present with us today, and we commit this

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Speaker 1: day to your care, and thank you for all of

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Speaker 1: these things. In Jesus' name. Amen,