< Job 39 >
1 “Have you known the time of The bearing of the wild goats of the rock? Do you mark the bringing forth of does?
to know time to beget goat crag to twist: give birth doe to keep: look at
2 Do you number the months they fulfill? And have you known the time of their bringing forth?
to recount month to fill and to know time to beget they
3 They bow down, They bring forth their young ones safely, They cast forth their pangs.
to bow youth their to cleave pain their to send: let go
4 Their young ones are safe, They grow up in the field, they have gone out, And have not returned to 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 has sent forth the wild donkey free? Indeed, who opened the bands of the wild donkey?
who? to send: let go wild donkey free and bond wild donkey who? to open
6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,
which to set: put plain house: home his and tabernacle his saltiness
7 He laughs at the multitude of a city, He does not hear the cries of an exactor.
to laugh to/for crowd town shout to oppress not to hear: hear
8 The range of mountains [is] his pasture, And he seeks after every green thing.
to spy mountain: mount pasture his and after all green to seek
9 Is a wild ox willing to serve you? Does he lodge by your crib?
be willing wild ox to serve you if: surely no to lodge upon crib your
10 Do you bind a wild ox in a furrow [with] his thick band? Does he harrow valleys after you?
to conspire wild ox in/on/with furrow cord his if: surely no to harrow valley after you
11 Do you trust in him because his power [is] great? And do you leave your labor to him?
to trust in/on/with him for many strength his and to leave: forsake to(wards) him toil your
12 Do you trust in him That he brings back your seed, And gathers [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] wing of the crying ostriches exults, but as a pinion and feather of a stork?
wing ostrich to rejoice if: surely yes pinion stork and plumage
14 For she leaves her eggs on the earth, And she warms them on the dust,
for to leave: forsake to/for land: country/planet egg her and upon dust to warm
15 And she forgets that a foot may press it, And a beast of the field treads it down.
and to forget for foot to crush her and living thing [the] land: wildlife to tread her
16 It has hardened her young ones without her, Her labor [is] in vain, without fear.
to harden son: young animal her to/for not to/for her to/for vain toil her without dread
17 For God has caused her to forget wisdom, And He has not given a portion To her in understanding;
for to forget her god wisdom and not to divide to/for her in/on/with understanding
18 At the time she lifts herself up on high, She laughs 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 Do you give might to the horse? Do you clothe his neck [with] a mane?
to give: give to/for horse might to clothe neck his mane
20 Do you cause him to rush as a locust? The splendor of his snorting [is] terrible.
to shake him like/as locust splendor snorting his terror
21 They dig in a valley, and he rejoices in power, He goes forth to meet the armor.
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 laughs at fear, and is not frightened, And he does not turn back from the face of the sword.
to laugh to/for dread and not to to be dismayed and not to return: return from face: before sword
23 Quiver rattles against him, The flame of a spear, and a javelin.
upon him to rattle quiver flame spear and javelin
24 He swallows the ground with trembling and rage, And does not remain steadfast Because of the sound of a horn.
in/on/with quaking and turmoil to swallow land: soil and not be faithful for voice: sound trumpet
25 Among the horns he says, Aha, And from afar he smells battle, Roaring of princes and shouting.
in/on/with sufficiency trumpet to say Aha! and from distant to smell battle thunder ruler and shout
26 By your understanding does a hawk fly? Does he spread his wings to the south?
from understanding your to fly hawk to spread (wing his *Q(K)*) to/for south
27 At your command does an eagle go up high? Or lift up his nest?
if: surely no upon lip: word your to exult eagle and for to exalt nest his
28 He inhabits a rock, Indeed, he lodges on the tooth of a rock, and fortress.
crag to dwell and to lodge upon tooth: crag crag and fortress
29 From there he has sought food, His eyes look attentively to a far-off place,
from there to search food to/for from distant eye his to look
30 And his brood sucks up blood, And where the pierced [are]—there [is] he!”
(and young his *Q(K)*) to suck blood and in/on/with in which slain: killed there he/she/it