Job 39
1 Knowest thou the time when the chamois of the rock bring forth? or markest thou when the hinds do calve?
| הידעת--עת לדת יעלי-סלע חלל אילות תשמר |
2 Numberest thou the months of gestation which they complete and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
| תספר ירחים תמלאנה וידעת עת לדתנה |
3 They bend themselves: they drop their young ones; throw off their pains.
| תכרענה ילדיהן תפלחנה חבליהם תשלחנה |
4 Their little ones become strong; they grow up in the open field; they go forth, and return not unto them.
| יחלמו בניהם ירבו בבר יצאו ולא-שבו למו |
5 Who sent out the wild ass free? or who loosened the bonds of the forest-ass?
| מי-שלח פרא חפשי ומסרות ערוד מי פתח |
6 To whom I assigned the wilderness as his house, and the salty land as his dwellings.
| אשר-שמתי ערבה ביתו ומשכנותיו מלחה |
7 He laugheth at the noise of a town, and the shoutings of the driver he heareth not.
| ישחק להמון קריה תשאות נגש לא ישמע |
8 What he espieth on the mountains is his pasture, and after every green thing doth he search.
| יתור הרים מרעהו ואחר כל-ירוק ידרוש |
9 Will the forest-ox be willing to serve thee, or will he stay over night at thy crib?
| היאבה רים עבדך אם-ילין על-אבוסך |
10 Canst thou bind the forest-ox with a rope [to labor] in the furrow? or will he harrow valleys, following after thee?
| התקשר-רים בתלם עבתו אם-ישדד עמקים אחריך |
11 Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou leave to him thy labor?
| התבטח-בו כי-רב כחו ותעזב אליו יגיעך |
12 Wilt thou confide in him, that he should bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor?—
| התאמין בו כי-ישוב (ישיב) זרעך וגרנך יאסף |
13 The wing of the ostrich moveth joyfully: hath she the pinions and plumage of the careful stork?
| כנף-רננים נעלסה אם-אברה חסידה ונצה |
14 [No, ] for she intrusteth her eggs to the earth, and letteth them be hatched out on the dust:
| כי-תעזב לארץ בציה ועל-עפר תחמם |
15 And she forgetteth that a foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may stamp them down.
| ותשכח כי-רגל תזורה וחית השדה תדושה |
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;
| הקשיח בניה ללא-לה לריק יגיעה בלי-פחד |
17 Because God hath denied her wisdom, and he hath not imparted to her understanding.
| כי-השה אלוה חכמה ולא-חלק לה בבינה |
18 At the time she raiseth herself up on high, she laugheth at the horse and his rider.
| כעת במרום תמריא תשחק לסוס ולרכבו |
19 Dost thou give the horse strength? dost thou clothe his neck with the rolling mane?
| התתן לסוס גבורה התלביש צוארו רעמה |
20 Canst thou make him jump like a locust? his majestic snort is terrible.
| התרעישנו כארבה הוד נחרו אימה |
21 Men spy about in the valley, and he rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth forth to meet the armed array.
| יחפרו בעמק וישיש בכח יצא לקראת-נשק |
22 He laugheth at fear, and is not dismayed; and turneth not back from before the sword.
| ישחק לפחד ולא יחת ולא-ישוב מפני-חרב |
23 Over him rattle the quiver, the glittering spear and the lance.
| עליו תרנה אשפה להב חנית וכידון |
24 With impatient noise and rage he holloweth [with his hoof] the ground, and keepeth not quiet when the cornet's voice [is heard].
| ברעש ורגז יגמא-ארץ ולא-יאמין כי-קול שופר |
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.—
| בדי שפר יאמר האח-- ומרחוק יריח מלחמה רעם שרים ותרועה |
26 Is it through thy understanding that the hawk flieth along, and spreadeth out his wings toward the south?
| המבינתך יאבר-נץ יפרש כנפו לתימן |
27 Or is it by your order that the eagle doth mount upward, and buildeth high up his nest?
| אם-על-פיך יגביה נשר וכי ירים קנו |
28 On a rock he dwelleth, and spendeth his nights, on a rocky crag and mountain fastness.
| סלע ישכן ויתלנן-- על שן-סלע ומצודה |
29 From there he espieth his food, from afar can his eyes behold.
| משם חפר-אכל למרחוק עיניו יביטו |
30 His young ones, also, sip up blood: and where the slain be, there is he.
| ואפרחו יעלעו-דם ובאשר חללים שם הוא |
