< Job 39 >
1 Do you know when the wild goats give birth? Have you watched the birth-pains of the deer?
to know time to beget goat crag to twist: give birth doe to keep: look at
2 Do you know how many months they carry their young? Do you know the time when they give birth?
to recount month to fill and to know time to beget they
3 They crouch down in labor to deliver their offspring.
to bow youth their to cleave pain their to send: let go
4 Their young grow strong in the open countryside; they leave and never return.
be healthy son: child their to multiply in/on/with field to come out: come and not to return: return to/for them
5 Who gave the wild donkey its freedom? Who set it free from its bonds?
who? to send: let go wild donkey free and bond wild donkey who? to open
6 I have given it the wilderness as its home, the salt plains as a place to live.
which to set: put plain house: home his and tabernacle his saltiness
7 It despises the noise of the city; it doesn't need to listen to the shouts of a driver.
to laugh to/for crowd town shout to oppress not to hear: hear
8 It hunts in the mountains for pastureland, searching for all kinds of green plants to eat.
to spy mountain: mount pasture his and after all green to seek
9 Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will it spend the night at your manger?
be willing wild ox to serve you if: surely no to lodge upon crib your
10 Can you tie a wild ox to a plow? Can you make it till your fields for you?
to conspire wild ox in/on/with furrow cord his if: surely no to harrow valley after you
11 Because it's so powerful can you trust it? Can you depend on it to do your heavy work for you?
to trust in/on/with him for many strength his and to leave: forsake to(wards) him toil your
12 Are you sure it will gather your grain and bring it to your threshing floor?
be faithful in/on/with him for (to return: return *Q(K)*) seed your and threshing floor your to gather
13 The ostrich proudly flaps her wings, but they are nothing like the flight feathers of the stork.
wing ostrich to rejoice if: surely yes pinion stork and plumage
14 The ostrich abandons her eggs on the ground, leaving them to be warmed in the dust.
for to leave: forsake to/for land: country/planet egg her and upon dust to warm
15 She doesn't think that they can be crushed underfoot, trampled by a wild animal.
and to forget for foot to crush her and living thing [the] land: wildlife to tread her
16 She is tough towards her young, acting as if they didn't belong to her. She doesn't care that all her work was for nothing.
to harden son: young animal her to/for not to/for her to/for vain toil her without dread
17 For I, God, made her forget wisdom—she didn't get her share of intelligence.
for to forget her god wisdom and not to divide to/for her in/on/with understanding
18 But when she needs to, she can jump up and run, mocking a horse and its rider with her speed.
like/as time in/on/with height to flap to laugh to/for horse and to/for to ride his
19 Did you give the horse its strength? Did you place a mane upon its neck?
to give: give to/for horse might to clothe neck his mane
20 Did you make it able to jump like a locust? Its loud snorting is terrifying!
to shake him like/as locust splendor snorting his terror
21 It paws at the ground, rearing up with power as it charges into battle.
to search in/on/with valley and to rejoice in/on/with strength to come out: come to/for to encounter: meet weapon
22 It laughs at fear; it is not frightened at all.
to laugh to/for dread and not to to be dismayed and not to return: return from face: before sword
23 The quiver full of arrows rattles against it; the spear and the javelin flash in the sunlight.
upon him to rattle quiver flame spear and javelin
24 Shaking with rage it gallops across the ground; it cannot remain still when the trumpet sounds.
in/on/with quaking and turmoil to swallow land: soil and not be faithful for voice: sound trumpet
25 Whenever the trumpet calls, it is ready; he senses the sound of battle from far away, he hears the commanders shouting.
in/on/with sufficiency trumpet to say Aha! and from distant to smell battle thunder ruler and shout
26 Is it through your wisdom that the hawk soars, spreading its wings towards the south?
from understanding your to fly hawk to spread (wing his *Q(K)*) to/for south
27 Do you command the eagle to fly high and make its nest in the summits of the mountains?
if: surely no upon lip: word your to exult eagle and for to exalt nest his
28 It lives among the cliffs, and roosts on a remote rocky crag.
crag to dwell and to lodge upon tooth: crag crag and fortress
29 From there it spies its prey from far away, fixing its gaze on its victim. Its chicks eagerly swallow blood.
from there to search food to/for from distant eye his to look
30 Where the carcasses are, that's where birds of prey are found.”
(and young his *Q(K)*) to suck blood and in/on/with in which slain: killed there he/she/it