Job 39
1 Do you know at what time the wild goats have given birth among the rocks, or do you observe the deer when they go into labor?
Do you know at what time the wild goats in the rocks bear their young? Can you watch when the deer are having their fawns?
2 Have you numbered the months since their conception, and do you know at what time they gave birth?
Can you count the months that they gestate? Do you know the time when they bear their young?
3 They bend themselves for their offspring, and they give birth, and they emit roars.
They crouch down and birth their young, and then they finish their labor pains.
4 Their young are weaned and go out to feed; they depart and do not return to them.
Their young ones become strong and grow up in the open fields; they go out and do not come back again.
5 Who has set the wild ass free, and who has released his bonds?
Who let the wild donkey go free? Who has untied the bonds of the swift donkey,
6 I have given a house in solitude to him, and his tabernacle is in the salted land.
whose home I have made in the Arabah, his house in the salt land?
7 He despises the crowded city; he does not pay attention to the bellow of the tax collector.
He laughs in scorn at the noises in the city; he does not hear the driver's shouts.
8 He looks around the mountains of his pasture, and he searches everywhere for green plants.
He roams over the mountains as his pastures; there he looks for every green plant to eat.
9 Will the rhinoceros be willing to serve you, and will he remain in your stall?
Will the wild ox be happy to serve you? Will he consent to stay by your manger?
10 Can you detain the rhinoceros with your harness to plough for you, and will he loosen the soil of the furrows behind you?
Can you use ropes to hold the wild ox in the furrows? Will he harrow the valleys as he follows after you?
11 Will you put your faith in his great strength, and delegate your labors to him?
Will you trust him because his strength is great? Will you leave your work to him to do?
12 Will you trust him to return to you the seed, and to gather it on your drying floor?
Will you depend on him to bring your grain home, to gather the grain for your threshing floor?
13 The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.
The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love?
14 When she leaves eggs behind in the earth, will you perhaps warm them in the dust?
For she leaves her eggs on the earth, and she lets them keep warm in the dust;
15 She forgets that feet may trample them, or that the beasts of the field may shatter them.
she forgets that a foot might crush them or that a wild beast might trample them.
16 She is hardened against her young, as if they were not hers; she has labored in vain, with no fear compelling her.
She deals roughly with her young ones as if they were not hers; she does not fear that her labor might have been in vain,
17 For God has deprived her of wisdom; neither has he given her understanding.
because God has deprived her of wisdom and has not given her any understanding.
18 Yet, when the time is right, she raises her wings on high; she ridicules the horse and his rider.
When she runs swiftly, she laughs in scorn at the horse and its rider.
19 Will you supply strength to the horse, or envelope his throat with neighing?
Have you given the horse his strength? Did you clothe his neck with his flowing mane?
20 Will you alarm him as the locusts do? His panic is revealed by the display of his nostrils.
Have you ever made him jump like a locust? The majesty of his snorting is fearsome.
21 He digs at the earth with his hoof; he jumps around boldly; he advances to meet armed men.
He paws in might and rejoices in his strength; he rushes out to meet the weapons.
22 He despises fear; he does not turn away from the sword.
He mocks fear and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword.
23 Above him, the quiver rattles, the spear and the shield shake.
The quiver rattles against his flank, along with the flashing spear and the javelin.
24 Seething and raging, he drinks up the earth; neither does he pause when the blast of the trumpet sounds.
He swallows up ground with fierceness and rage; at the trumpet's sound, he cannot stand in one place.
25 When he hears the bugle, he says, “Ha!” He smells the battle from a distance, the exhortation of the officers, and the battle cry of the soldiers.
Whenever the trumpet sounds, he says, 'Aha!' He smells the battle from far away— the thunderous shouts of the commanders and the outcries.
26 Does the hawk grow feathers by means of your wisdom, spreading her wings towards the south?
Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, that he stretches out his wings for the south?
27 Will the eagle lift herself up at your command and make her nest in steep places?
Is it at your orders that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest in high places?
28 She dwells among the rocks, and she lingers among broken boulders and inaccessible cliffs.
He lives on cliffs and makes his home on the peaks of cliffs, a stronghold.
29 From there, she looks for food, and her eyes catch sight of it from far away.
From there he searches for victims; his eyes see them from very far away.
30 Her young will drink blood, and wherever the carcass will be, she is there immediately.
His young also drink up blood; where killed people are, there he is.”
