Job 39
1 Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?
| הידעת--עת לדת יעלי-סלע חלל אילות תשמר |
2 Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?
| תספר ירחים תמלאנה וידעת עת לדתנה |
3 They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.
| תכרענה ילדיהן תפלחנה חבליהם תשלחנה |
4 Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.
| יחלמו בניהם ירבו בבר יצאו ולא-שבו למו |
5 Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?
| מי-שלח פרא חפשי ומסרות ערוד מי פתח |
6 To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.
| אשר-שמתי ערבה ביתו ומשכנותיו מלחה |
7 He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;
| ישחק להמון קריה תשאות נגש לא ישמע |
8 He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.
| יתור הרים מרעהו ואחר כל-ירוק ידרוש |
9 Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?
| היאבה רים עבדך אם-ילין על-אבוסך |
10 Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?
| התקשר-רים בתלם עבתו אם-ישדד עמקים אחריך |
11 Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?
| התבטח-בו כי-רב כחו ותעזב אליו יגיעך |
12 Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?
| התאמין בו כי-ישוב (ישיב) זרעך וגרנך יאסף |
13 Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,
| כנף-רננים נעלסה אם-אברה חסידה ונצה |
14 That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,
| כי-תעזב לארץ בציה ועל-עפר תחמם |
15 Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?
| ותשכח כי-רגל תזורה וחית השדה תדושה |
16 She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.
| הקשיח בניה ללא-לה לריק יגיעה בלי-פחד |
17 For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.
| כי-השה אלוה חכמה ולא-חלק לה בבינה |
18 When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.
| כעת במרום תמריא תשחק לסוס ולרכבו |
19 Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?
| התתן לסוס גבורה התלביש צוארו רעמה |
20 Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?
| התרעישנו כארבה הוד נחרו אימה |
21 He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.
| יחפרו בעמק וישיש בכח יצא לקראת-נשק |
22 In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.
| ישחק לפחד ולא יחת ולא-ישוב מפני-חרב |
23 The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow.
| עליו תרנה אשפה להב חנית וכידון |
24 Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;
| ברעש ורגז יגמא-ארץ ולא-יאמין כי-קול שופר |
25 When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries.
| בדי שפר יאמר האח-- ומרחוק יריח מלחמה רעם שרים ותרועה |
26 Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?
| המבינתך יאבר-נץ יפרש כנפו לתימן |
27 Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?
| אם-על-פיך יגביה נשר וכי ירים קנו |
28 On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place.
| סלע ישכן ויתלנן-- על שן-סלע ומצודה |
29 From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.
| משם חפר-אכל למרחוק עיניו יביטו |
30 His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.
| ואפרחו יעלעו-דם ובאשר חללים שם הוא |
