Job 39
1 Knowest thou the time when the wilde goates bring foorth yong? or doest thou marke when the hindes doe calue?
Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?
2 Canst thou nomber the moneths that they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth?
Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?
3 They bow them selues: they bruise their yong and cast out their sorowes.
They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.
4 Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them.
Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.
5 Who hath set the wilde asse at libertie? or who hath loosed the bondes of the wilde asse?
Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?
6 It is I which haue made the wildernesse his house, and the salt places his dwellings.
To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.
7 He derideth the multitude of the citie: he heareth not the crie of the driuer.
He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;
8 He seeketh out the mountaine for his pasture, and searcheth after euery greene thing.
He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.
9 Will the vnicorne serue thee? or will he tary by thy cribbe?
Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?
10 Canst thou binde the vnicorne with his band to labour in the furrowe? or will he plowe the valleyes after thee?
Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?
11 Wilt thou trust in him, because his strength is great, and cast off thy labour vnto him?
Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?
12 Wilt thou beleeue him, that he will bring home thy seede, and gather it vnto thy barne?
Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?
13 Hast thou giuen the pleasant wings vnto the peacockes? or winges and feathers vnto the ostriche?
Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,
14 Which leaueth his egges in the earth, and maketh them hote in the dust,
That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,
15 And forgetteth that the foote might scatter the, or that the wild beast might breake the.
Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?
16 He sheweth himselfe cruell vnto his yong ones, as they were not his, and is without feare, as if he trauailed in vaine.
She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.
17 For God had depriued him of wisedom, and hath giuen him no part of vnderstanding.
For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.
18 When time is, he mounteth on hie: he mocketh the horse and his rider.
When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.
19 Hast thou giuen the horse strength? or couered his necke with neying?
Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?
20 Hast thou made him afraid as the grashopper? his strong neying is fearefull.
Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?
21 He diggeth in the valley, and reioyceth in his strength: he goeth foorth to meete the harnest man.
He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.
22 He mocketh at feare, and is not afraid, and turneth not backe from the sworde,
In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.
23 Though the quiuer rattle against him, the glittering speare and the shield.
The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow.
24 He swalloweth the ground for fearcenes and rage, and he beleeueth not that it is the noise of the trumpet.
Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;
25 He sayth among the trumpets, Ha, ha: hee smellleth the battell afarre off, and the noyse of the captaines, and the shouting.
When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries.
26 Shall the hauke flie by thy wisedome, stretching out his wings toward the South?
Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?
27 Doeth the eagle mount vp at thy commandement, or make his nest on hie?
Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?
28 Shee abideth and remaineth in the rocke, euen vpon the toppe of the rocke, and the tower.
On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place.
29 From thence she spieth for meate, and her eyes beholde afarre off.
From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.
30 His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where the slaine are, there is she.
His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.
