Job 39
1 Do thou know the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Or can thou mark when the hinds do calve?
[Say] if you know the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock, and [if] you have marked the calving of the hinds:
2 Can thou number the months that they fulfill? Or do thou know the time when they bring forth?
and [if] you has have numbered the full months of their being with young, and [if] you have relieved their pangs:
3 They bow themselves. They bring forth their young. They cast out their pains.
and have reared their young without fear; and will you loosen their pangs?
4 Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go forth, and return not again.
Their young will break forth; they will be multiplied with offspring: [their young] will go forth, and will not return to them.
5 Who has sent out the wild donkey free? Or who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey
And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? and who loosed his bands?
6 whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling-place?
whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, and the salt land his coverts.
7 He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shoutings of the driver.
He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer.
8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
He will survey the mountains [as] his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing.
9 Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?
And will the unicorn be willing to serve you, or to lie down at your manger?
10 Can thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
And will you bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plough furrows for you in the plain?
11 Will thou trust him because his strength is great? Or will thou leave to him thy labor?
And do you trust him, because his strength is great? and will you commit your works to him?
12 Will thou confide in him that he will bring home thy seed, and gather the grain of thy threshing-floor?
And will you believe that he will return to you your seed, and bring [it] in [to] your threshing floor?
13 The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love?
The peacock has a beautiful wing: if the stork and the ostrich conceive, [it is worthy of notice],
14 For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and warms them in the dust.
for [the ostrich] will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust,
15 And she forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may trample them.
and has forgotten that the foot will scatter them, and the wild beasts of the field trample them.
16 She deals hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor be in vain, she is without fear,
She has hardened [herself] against her young ones, as though [she bereaved] not herself: she labours in vain without fear.
17 because God has deprived her of wisdom, nor has he imparted understanding to her.
For God has withholden wisdom from her, and not given her a portion in understanding.
18 The time she lifts up herself on high she scorns the horse and his rider.
In her season she will lift herself on high; she will scorn the horse and his rider.
19 Have thou given the horse his might? Have thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane?
Hast you invested the horse with strength, and clothed his neck with terror?
20 Have thou made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.
And have you clad him in perfect armour, and made his breast glorious with courage?
21 He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.
He paws exulting in the plain, and goes forth in strength into the plain.
22 He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed. Neither does he turn back from the sword.
He laughs to scorn a king as he meets him, and will by no means turn back from the sword.
23 The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.
The bow and sword resound against him; and [his] rage will swallow up the ground:
24 He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage, nor does he believe that it is the voice of the trumpet.
and he will not believe until the trumpet sounds.
25 As often as the trumpet sounds he says, Aha! And he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! and afar off he smells the war with prancing and neighing.
26 Is it by thy wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?
And does the hawk remain steady by your wisdom, having spread out her wings unmoved, looking towards the region of the south?
27 Is it at thy command that the eagle mounts up, and makes her nest on high?
And does the eagle rise at your command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest,
28 She dwells on the cliff, and makes her home upon the point of the cliff and the stronghold.
on a crag of a rock, and in a secret [place]?
29 From there she spies out the prey. Her eyes behold it afar off.
Thence he seeks food, his eyes observe from far.
30 Her young ones also suck up blood. And where the slain are, there is she.
And his young ones roll themselves in blood, and wherever the carcasses may be, immediately they are found.
