Job 39

Now let's take a look at another usage, a time for going to battle.

And we'll turn to an interesting little section here in Job.

So if you turn to Job 39, verse 25, you can follow along with me.

And we're going to start back a little bit.

So in context here, God is introducing himself to Job.

And he's saying, Job, just to put things in perspective, you're a good guy.

But there's a lot you really don't know.

You weren't here to create everything.

Recorded observations on the subject date back nearly 3,000 years to the times of Hesiod, Homer, Herodotus, and Aristotle.

In the Bible, there are several references to the periodic movements of birds, as in the book of Job 39, verse 26, where the inquiry is made, "Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom and stretch her wings toward the south?" The author of Jeremiah 8, verse 7, wrote, "The stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed time, and the turtledove, and the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming." The flight of migratory quail that saved the Israelites from starvation in their wanderings through the Sinai wilderness is now recognized as a vast migration between their breeding grounds in Eastern Europe and Western Asia and their winter home in Africa.

Aristotle, naturalist and philosopher of ancient Greece, was one of the first observers whose writings are known to discuss the subject of bird migration.

He noted cranes traveled from the steppes of Scythia to the marshes at the headwaters of the Nile, and pelicans, geese, swans, rails, doves, and many other birds likewise passed to warmer regions to spend the winter.

It's not like that at all.

The The ostrich is rejoicing to run and the wild donkey is rejoicing and the horse pours fiercely, Job 39 verse 22, rejoicing in.

Rejoicing in its strength and charges into the fray.

It laughs at fear, afraid of nothing.