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?
Hast thou known the time of The bearing of the wild goats of the rock? The bringing forth of hinds thou dost mark!
2 Have you numbered the months since their conception, and do you know at what time they gave birth?
Thou dost number the months they fulfil? And thou hast known the time of their bringing forth!
3 They bend themselves for their offspring, and they give birth, and they emit roars.
They bow down, Their young ones they bring forth safely, Their pangs they cast forth.
4 Their young are weaned and go out to feed; they depart and do not return to them.
Safe are their young ones, They grow up in the field, they have gone out, And have not returned to them.
5 Who has set the wild ass free, and who has released his bonds?
Who hath sent forth the wild ass free? Yea, the bands of the wild ass who opened?
6 I have given a house in solitude to him, and his tabernacle is in the salted land.
Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,
7 He despises the crowded city; he does not pay attention to the bellow of the tax collector.
He doth laugh at the multitude of a city, The cries of an exactor he heareth not.
8 He looks around the mountains of his pasture, and he searches everywhere for green plants.
The range of mountains [is] his pasture, And after every green thing he seeketh.
9 Will the rhinoceros be willing to serve you, and will he remain in your stall?
Is a Reem willing to serve thee? Doth he lodge by thy crib?
10 Can you detain the rhinoceros with your harness to plough for you, and will he loosen the soil of the furrows behind you?
Dost thou bind a Reem in a furrow [with] his thick band? Doth he harrow valleys after thee?
11 Will you put your faith in his great strength, and delegate your labors to him?
Dost thou trust in him because great [is] his power? And dost thou leave unto him thy labour?
12 Will you trust him to return to you the seed, and to gather it on your drying floor?
Dost thou trust in him That he doth bring back thy seed? And [to] thy threshing-floor doth gather [it]?
13 The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.
The wing of the rattling ones exulteth, Whether the pinion of the ostrich or hawk.
14 When she leaves eggs behind in the earth, will you perhaps warm them in the dust?
For she leaveth on the earth her eggs, And on the dust she doth warm them,
15 She forgets that feet may trample them, or that the beasts of the field may shatter them.
And she forgetteth that a foot may press it, And a beast of the field tread it down.
16 She is hardened against her young, as if they were not hers; she has labored in vain, with no fear compelling her.
Her young ones it hath hardened without her, In vain [is] her labour without fear.
17 For God has deprived her of wisdom; neither has he given her understanding.
For God hath caused her to forget wisdom, And He hath not given a portion To her in understanding:
18 Yet, when the time is right, she raises her wings on high; she ridicules the horse and his rider.
At the time on high she lifteth herself up, She laugheth at the horse and at his rider.
19 Will you supply strength to the horse, or envelope his throat with neighing?
Dost thou give to the horse might? Dost thou clothe his neck [with] a mane?
20 Will you alarm him as the locusts do? His panic is revealed by the display of his nostrils.
Dost thou cause him to rush as a locust? The majesty of his snorting [is] terrible.
21 He digs at the earth with his hoof; he jumps around boldly; he advances to meet armed men.
They dig in a valley, and he rejoiceth in power, He goeth forth to meet the armour.
22 He despises fear; he does not turn away from the sword.
He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted, And he turneth not back from the face of the sword.
23 Above him, the quiver rattles, the spear and the shield shake.
Against him rattle doth quiver, The flame of a spear, and a halbert.
24 Seething and raging, he drinks up the earth; neither does he pause when the blast of the trumpet sounds.
With trembling and rage he swalloweth the ground, And remaineth not stedfast Because of the sound of a trumpet.
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.
Among the trumpets he saith, Aha, And from afar he doth smell battle, Roaring of princes and shouting.
26 Does the hawk grow feathers by means of your wisdom, spreading her wings towards the south?
By thine understanding flieth a hawk? Spreadeth he his wings to the south?
27 Will the eagle lift herself up at your command and make her nest in steep places?
At thy command goeth an eagle up high? Or lifteth he up his nest?
28 She dwells among the rocks, and she lingers among broken boulders and inaccessible cliffs.
A rock he doth inhabit, Yea, he lodgeth on the tooth of a rock, and fortress.
29 From there, she looks for food, and her eyes catch sight of it from far away.
From thence he hath sought food, To a far off place his eyes look attentively,
30 Her young will drink blood, and wherever the carcass will be, she is there immediately.
And his brood gulp up blood, And where the pierced [are] — there [is] he!
