Job 39
1 [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:
Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
2 and [if] you has have numbered the full months of their being with young, and [if] you have relieved their pangs:
Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? Or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
3 and have reared their young without fear; and will you loosen their pangs?
They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, they cast out their fruit.
4 Their young will break forth; they will be multiplied with offspring: [their young] will go forth, and will not return to them.
Their young ones wax strong, they grow up in the open field; they go forth, and return not again.
5 And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? and who loosed his bands?
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
6 whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, and the salt land his coverts.
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling-place.
7 He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer.
He scorneth the tumult of the city, neither heareth he the shoutings of the driver.
8 He will survey the mountains [as] his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing.
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
9 And will the unicorn be willing to serve you, or to lie down at your manger?
Will the wild-ox be willing to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?
10 And will you bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plough furrows for you in the plain?
Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
11 And do you trust him, because his strength is great? and will you commit your works to him?
Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? Or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
12 And will you believe that he will return to you your seed, and bring [it] in [to] your threshing floor?
Wilt thou rely on him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather the corn of thy threshing-floor?
13 The peacock has a beautiful wing: if the stork and the ostrich conceive, [it is worthy of notice],
The wing of the ostrich beateth joyously; but are her pinions and feathers the kindly stork's?
14 for [the ostrich] will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust,
For she leaveth her eggs on the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
15 and has forgotten that the foot will scatter them, and the wild beasts of the field trample them.
And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may trample them.
16 She has hardened [herself] against her young ones, as though [she bereaved] not herself: she labours in vain without fear.
She is hardened against her young ones, as if they were not hers; though her labour be in vain, she is without fear;
17 For God has withholden wisdom from her, and not given her a portion in understanding.
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath He imparted to her understanding.
18 In her season she will lift herself on high; she will scorn the horse and his rider.
When the time cometh, she raiseth her wings on high, and scorneth the horse and his rider.
19 Hast you invested the horse with strength, and clothed his neck with terror?
Hast thou given the horse his strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with fierceness?
20 And have you clad him in perfect armour, and made his breast glorious with courage?
Hast thou made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is terrible.
21 He paws exulting in the plain, and goes forth in strength into the plain.
He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength; he goeth out to meet the clash of arms.
22 He laughs to scorn a king as he meets him, and will by no means turn back from the sword.
He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
23 The bow and sword resound against him; and [his] rage will swallow up the ground:
The quiver rattleth upon him, the glittering spear and the javelin.
24 and he will not believe until the trumpet sounds.
He swalloweth the ground with storm and rage; neither believeth he that it is the voice of the horn.
25 And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! and afar off he smells the war with prancing and neighing.
As oft as he heareth the horn he saith: 'Ha, ha!' and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
26 And does the hawk remain steady by your wisdom, having spread out her wings unmoved, looking towards the region of the south?
Doth the hawk soar by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?
27 And does the eagle rise at your command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest,
Doth the vulture mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
28 on a crag of a rock, and in a secret [place]?
She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the stronghold.
29 Thence he seeks food, his eyes observe from far.
From thence she spieth out the prey; her eyes behold it afar off.
30 And his young ones roll themselves in blood, and wherever the carcasses may be, immediately they are found.
Her young ones also suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is she.
