< Job 39 >
1 Knowest thou the time when the chamois of the rock bring forth? or markest thou when the hinds do calve?
to know time to beget goat crag to twist: give birth doe to keep: look at
2 Numberest thou the months of gestation which they complete and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
to recount month to fill and to know time to beget they
3 They bend themselves: they drop their young ones; throw off their pains.
to bow youth their to cleave pain their to send: let go
4 Their little ones become strong; they grow up in the open field; they go forth, and return not unto them.
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 sent out the wild ass free? or who loosened the bonds of the forest-ass?
who? to send: let go wild donkey free and bond wild donkey who? to open
6 To whom I assigned the wilderness as his house, and the salty land as his dwellings.
which to set: put plain house: home his and tabernacle his saltiness
7 He laugheth at the noise of a town, and the shoutings of the driver he heareth not.
to laugh to/for crowd town shout to oppress not to hear: hear
8 What he espieth on the mountains is his pasture, and after every green thing doth he search.
to spy mountain: mount pasture his and after all green to seek
9 Will the forest-ox be willing to serve thee, or will he stay over night at thy crib?
be willing wild ox to serve you if: surely no to lodge upon crib your
10 Canst thou bind the forest-ox with a rope [to labor] in the furrow? or will he harrow valleys, following after thee?
to conspire wild ox in/on/with furrow cord his if: surely no to harrow valley after you
11 Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou leave to him thy labor?
to trust in/on/with him for many strength his and to leave: forsake to(wards) him toil your
12 Wilt thou confide in him, that he should bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor?—
be faithful in/on/with him for (to return: return *Q(K)*) seed your and threshing floor your to gather
13 The wing of the ostrich moveth joyfully: hath she the pinions and plumage of the careful stork?
wing ostrich to rejoice if: surely yes pinion stork and plumage
14 [No, ] for she intrusteth her eggs to the earth, and letteth them be hatched out on the dust:
for to leave: forsake to/for land: country/planet egg her and upon dust to warm
15 And she forgetteth that a foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may stamp them down.
and to forget for foot to crush her and living thing [the] land: wildlife to tread her
16 He hath made her callous against her young, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain, [but she feeleth] no dread;
to harden son: young animal her to/for not to/for her to/for vain toil her without dread
17 Because God hath denied her wisdom, and he hath not imparted to her understanding.
for to forget her god wisdom and not to divide to/for her in/on/with understanding
18 At the time she raiseth herself up on high, she laugheth at the horse and his rider.
like/as time in/on/with height to flap to laugh to/for horse and to/for to ride his
19 Dost thou give the horse strength? dost thou clothe his neck with the rolling mane?
to give: give to/for horse might to clothe neck his mane
20 Canst thou make him jump like a locust? his majestic snort is terrible.
to shake him like/as locust splendor snorting his terror
21 Men spy about in the valley, and he rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth forth to meet the armed array.
to search in/on/with valley and to rejoice in/on/with strength to come out: come to/for to encounter: meet weapon
22 He laugheth at fear, and is not dismayed; and turneth not back from before the sword.
to laugh to/for dread and not to to be dismayed and not to return: return from face: before sword
23 Over him rattle the quiver, the glittering spear and the lance.
upon him to rattle quiver flame spear and javelin
24 With impatient noise and rage he holloweth [with his hoof] the ground, and keepeth not quiet when the cornet's voice [is heard].
in/on/with quaking and turmoil to swallow land: soil and not be faithful for voice: sound trumpet
25 Midst the sound of the cornet he uttereth his joyful neigh; and from afar he perceiveth the battle, the loud call of the captains, and the battle-cry.—
in/on/with sufficiency trumpet to say Aha! and from distant to smell battle thunder ruler and shout
26 Is it through thy understanding that the hawk flieth along, and spreadeth out his wings toward the south?
from understanding your to fly hawk to spread (wing his *Q(K)*) to/for south
27 Or is it by your order that the eagle doth mount upward, and buildeth high up his nest?
if: surely no upon lip: word your to exult eagle and for to exalt nest his
28 On a rock he dwelleth, and spendeth his nights, on a rocky crag and mountain fastness.
crag to dwell and to lodge upon tooth: crag crag and fortress
29 From there he espieth his food, from afar can his eyes behold.
from there to search food to/for from distant eye his to look
30 His young ones, also, sip up blood: and where the slain be, there is he.
(and young his *Q(K)*) to suck blood and in/on/with in which slain: killed there he/she/it