Job 39
1 Knowest thou the time when the wilde goates bring foorth yong? or doest thou marke when the hindes doe calue?
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?
2 Canst thou nomber the moneths that they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth?
Have you numbered the months since their conception, and do you know at what time they gave birth?
3 They bow them selues: they bruise their yong and cast out their sorowes.
They bend themselves for their offspring, and they give birth, and they emit roars.
4 Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them.
Their young are weaned and go out to feed; they depart and do not return to them.
5 Who hath set the wilde asse at libertie? or who hath loosed the bondes of the wilde asse?
Who has set the wild ass free, and who has released his bonds?
6 It is I which haue made the wildernesse his house, and the salt places his dwellings.
I have given a house in solitude to him, and his tabernacle is in the salted land.
7 He derideth the multitude of the citie: he heareth not the crie of the driuer.
He despises the crowded city; he does not pay attention to the bellow of the tax collector.
8 He seeketh out the mountaine for his pasture, and searcheth after euery greene thing.
He looks around the mountains of his pasture, and he searches everywhere for green plants.
9 Will the vnicorne serue thee? or will he tary by thy cribbe?
Will the rhinoceros be willing to serve you, and will he remain in your stall?
10 Canst thou binde the vnicorne with his band to labour in the furrowe? or will he plowe the valleyes after thee?
Can you detain the rhinoceros with your harness to plough for you, and will he loosen the soil of the furrows behind 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 his great strength, and delegate your labors to him?
12 Wilt thou beleeue him, that he will bring home thy seede, and gather it vnto thy barne?
Will you trust him to return to you the seed, and to gather it on your drying floor?
13 Hast thou giuen the pleasant wings vnto the peacockes? or winges and feathers vnto the ostriche?
The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.
14 Which leaueth his egges in the earth, and maketh them hote in the dust,
When she leaves eggs behind in the earth, will you perhaps warm them in the dust?
15 And forgetteth that the foote might scatter the, or that the wild beast might breake the.
She forgets that feet may trample them, or that the beasts of the field may shatter them.
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 hardened against her young, as if they were not hers; she has labored in vain, with no fear compelling her.
17 For God had depriued him of wisedom, and hath giuen him no part of vnderstanding.
For God has deprived her of wisdom; neither has he given her understanding.
18 When time is, he mounteth on hie: he mocketh the horse and his rider.
Yet, when the time is right, she raises her wings on high; she ridicules the horse and his rider.
19 Hast thou giuen the horse strength? or couered his necke with neying?
Will you supply strength to the horse, or envelope his throat with neighing?
20 Hast thou made him afraid as the grashopper? his strong neying is fearefull.
Will you alarm him as the locusts do? His panic is revealed by the display of his nostrils.
21 He diggeth in the valley, and reioyceth in his strength: he goeth foorth to meete the harnest man.
He digs at the earth with his hoof; he jumps around boldly; he advances to meet armed men.
22 He mocketh at feare, and is not afraid, and turneth not backe from the sworde,
He despises fear; he does not turn away from the sword.
23 Though the quiuer rattle against him, the glittering speare and the shield.
Above him, the quiver rattles, the spear and the shield shake.
24 He swalloweth the ground for fearcenes and rage, and he beleeueth not that it is the noise of the trumpet.
Seething and raging, he drinks up the earth; neither does he pause when the blast of the trumpet sounds.
25 He sayth among the trumpets, Ha, ha: hee smellleth the battell afarre off, and the noyse of the captaines, and the shouting.
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.
26 Shall the hauke flie by thy wisedome, stretching out his wings toward the South?
Does the hawk grow feathers by means of your wisdom, spreading her wings towards the south?
27 Doeth the eagle mount vp at thy commandement, or make his nest on hie?
Will the eagle lift herself up at your command and make her nest in steep places?
28 Shee abideth and remaineth in the rocke, euen vpon the toppe of the rocke, and the tower.
She dwells among the rocks, and she lingers among broken boulders and inaccessible cliffs.
29 From thence she spieth for meate, and her eyes beholde afarre off.
From there, she looks for food, and her eyes catch sight of it from far away.
30 His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where the slaine are, there is she.
Her young will drink blood, and wherever the carcass will be, she is there immediately.
