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:
“Have you known the time of The bearing of the wild goats of the rock? Do you mark the bringing forth of does?
2 and [if] you has have numbered the full months of their being with young, and [if] you have relieved their pangs:
Do you number the months they fulfill? And have you known the time of their bringing forth?
3 and have reared their young without fear; and will you loosen their pangs?
They bow down, They bring forth their young ones safely, They cast forth their pangs.
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 are safe, They grow up in the field, they have gone out, And have not returned to them.
5 And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? and who loosed his bands?
Who has sent forth the wild donkey free? Indeed, who opened the bands of the wild donkey?
6 whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, and the salt land his coverts.
Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,
7 He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer.
He laughs at the multitude of a city, He does not hear the cries of an exactor.
8 He will survey the mountains [as] his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing.
The range of mountains [is] his pasture, And he seeks after every green thing.
9 And will the unicorn be willing to serve you, or to lie down at your manger?
Is a wild ox willing to serve you? Does he lodge by your crib?
10 And will you bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plough furrows for you in the plain?
Do you bind a wild ox in a furrow [with] his thick band? Does he harrow valleys after you?
11 And do you trust him, because his strength is great? and will you commit your works to him?
Do you trust in him because his power [is] great? And do you leave your labor to him?
12 And will you believe that he will return to you your seed, and bring [it] in [to] your threshing floor?
Do you trust in him That he brings back your seed, And gathers [it to] your 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 crying ostriches exults, but as a pinion and feather of a stork?
14 for [the ostrich] will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust,
For she leaves her eggs on the earth, And she warms them on the dust,
15 and has forgotten that the foot will scatter them, and the wild beasts of the field trample them.
And she forgets that a foot may press it, And a beast of the field treads it down.
16 She has hardened [herself] against her young ones, as though [she bereaved] not herself: she labours in vain without fear.
It has hardened her young ones without her, Her labor [is] in vain, without fear.
17 For God has withholden wisdom from her, and not given her a portion in understanding.
For God has caused her to forget wisdom, And He has not given a portion To her in understanding;
18 In her season she will lift herself on high; she will scorn the horse and his rider.
At the time she lifts herself up on high, She laughs at the horse and his rider.
19 Hast you invested the horse with strength, and clothed his neck with terror?
Do you give might to the horse? Do you clothe his neck [with] a mane?
20 And have you clad him in perfect armour, and made his breast glorious with courage?
Do you cause him to rush as a locust? The splendor of his snorting [is] terrible.
21 He paws exulting in the plain, and goes forth in strength into the plain.
They dig in a valley, and he rejoices in power, He goes forth to meet the armor.
22 He laughs to scorn a king as he meets him, and will by no means turn back from the sword.
He laughs at fear, and is not frightened, And he does not turn back from the face of the sword.
23 The bow and sword resound against him; and [his] rage will swallow up the ground:
Quiver rattles against him, The flame of a spear, and a javelin.
24 and he will not believe until the trumpet sounds.
He swallows the ground with trembling and rage, And does not remain steadfast Because of the sound of a horn.
25 And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! and afar off he smells the war with prancing and neighing.
Among the horns he says, Aha, And from afar he smells battle, Roaring of princes and shouting.
26 And does the hawk remain steady by your wisdom, having spread out her wings unmoved, looking towards the region of the south?
By your understanding does a hawk fly? Does he spread his wings to the south?
27 And does the eagle rise at your command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest,
At your command does an eagle go up high? Or lift up his nest?
28 on a crag of a rock, and in a secret [place]?
He inhabits a rock, Indeed, he lodges on the tooth of a rock, and fortress.
29 Thence he seeks food, his eyes observe from far.
From there he has sought food, His eyes look attentively to a far-off place,
30 And his young ones roll themselves in blood, and wherever the carcasses may be, immediately they are found.
And his brood sucks up blood, And where the pierced [are]—there [is] he!”
