< Job 39 >
1 “Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?
to know time to beget goat crag to twist: give birth doe to keep: look at
2 Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth?
to recount month to fill and to know time to beget they
3 They crouch down and bring forth their young; they deliver their newborn.
to bow youth their to cleave pain their to send: let go
4 Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return.
be healthy son: child their to multiply in/on/with field to come out: come and not to return: return to/for them
5 Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?
who? to send: let go wild donkey free and bond wild donkey who? to open
6 I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
which to set: put plain house: home his and tabernacle his saltiness
7 He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.
to laugh to/for crowd town shout to oppress not to hear: hear
8 He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.
to spy mountain: mount pasture his and after all green to seek
9 Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?
be willing wild ox to serve you if: surely no to lodge upon crib your
10 Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?
to conspire wild ox in/on/with furrow cord his if: surely no to harrow valley after you
11 Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?
to trust in/on/with him for many strength his and to leave: forsake to(wards) him toil your
12 Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
be faithful in/on/with him for (to return: return *Q(K)*) seed your and threshing floor your to gather
13 The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.
wing ostrich to rejoice if: surely yes pinion stork and plumage
14 For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.
for to leave: forsake to/for land: country/planet egg her and upon dust to warm
15 She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.
and to forget for foot to crush her and living thing [the] land: wildlife to tread her
16 She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.
to harden son: young animal her to/for not to/for her to/for vain toil her without dread
17 For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.
for to forget her god wisdom and not to divide to/for her in/on/with understanding
18 Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.
like/as time in/on/with height to flap to laugh to/for horse and to/for to ride his
19 Do you give strength to the horse or adorn his neck with a mane?
to give: give to/for horse might to clothe neck his mane
20 Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting?
to shake him like/as locust splendor snorting his terror
21 He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he charges into battle.
to search in/on/with valley and to rejoice in/on/with strength to come out: come to/for to encounter: meet weapon
22 He laughs at fear, frightened of nothing; he does not turn back from the sword.
to laugh to/for dread and not to to be dismayed and not to return: return from face: before sword
23 A quiver rattles at his side, along with a flashing spear and lance.
upon him to rattle quiver flame spear and javelin
24 Trembling with excitement, he devours the distance; he cannot stand still when the ram’s horn sounds.
in/on/with quaking and turmoil to swallow land: soil and not be faithful for voice: sound trumpet
25 At the blast of the horn, he snorts with fervor. He catches the scent of battle from afar— the shouts of captains and the cry of war.
in/on/with sufficiency trumpet to say Aha! and from distant to smell battle thunder ruler and shout
26 Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south?
from understanding your to fly hawk to spread (wing his *Q(K)*) to/for south
27 Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?
if: surely no upon lip: word your to exult eagle and for to exalt nest his
28 He dwells on a cliff and lodges there; his stronghold is on a rocky crag.
crag to dwell and to lodge upon tooth: crag crag and fortress
29 From there he spies out food; his eyes see it from afar.
from there to search food to/for from distant eye his to look
30 His young ones feast on blood; and where the slain are, there he is.”
(and young his *Q(K)*) to suck blood and in/on/with in which slain: killed there he/she/it