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?
Do you know at what time the wild goats in the rocks bear their young? Can you watch when the deer are having their fawns?
2 Do you number the months they fulfill? And have you known the time of their bringing forth?
Can you count the months that they gestate? Do you know the time when they bear their young?
3 They bow down, They bring forth their young ones safely, They cast forth their pangs.
They crouch down and birth their young, and then they finish their labor pains.
4 Their young ones are safe, They grow up in the field, they have gone out, And have not returned to them.
Their young ones become strong and grow up in the open fields; they go out and do not come back again.
5 Who has sent forth the wild donkey free? Indeed, who opened the bands of the wild donkey?
Who let the wild donkey go free? Who has untied the bonds of the swift donkey,
6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,
whose home I have made in the Arabah, his house in the salt land?
7 He laughs at the multitude of a city, He does not hear the cries of an exactor.
He laughs in scorn at the noises in the city; he does not hear the driver's shouts.
8 The range of mountains [is] his pasture, And he seeks after every green thing.
He roams over the mountains as his pastures; there he looks for every green plant to eat.
9 Is a wild ox willing to serve you? Does he lodge by your crib?
Will the wild ox be happy to serve you? Will he consent to stay by your manger?
10 Do you bind a wild ox in a furrow [with] his thick band? Does he harrow valleys after you?
Can you use ropes to hold the wild ox in the furrows? Will he harrow the valleys as he follows after you?
11 Do you trust in him because his power [is] great? And do you leave your labor to him?
Will you trust him because his strength is great? Will you leave your work to him to do?
12 Do you trust in him That he brings back your seed, And gathers [it to] your threshing-floor?
Will you depend on him to bring your grain home, to gather the grain for your threshing floor?
13 [The] wing of the crying ostriches exults, but as a pinion and feather of a stork?
The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love?
14 For she leaves her eggs on the earth, And she warms them on the dust,
For she leaves her eggs on the earth, and she lets them keep warm in the dust;
15 And she forgets that a foot may press it, And a beast of the field treads it down.
she forgets that a foot might crush them or that a wild beast might trample them.
16 It has hardened her young ones without her, Her labor [is] in vain, without fear.
She deals roughly with her young ones as if they were not hers; she does not fear that her labor might have been in vain,
17 For God has caused her to forget wisdom, And He has not given a portion To her in understanding;
because God has deprived her of wisdom and has not given her any understanding.
18 At the time she lifts herself up on high, She laughs at the horse and his rider.
When she runs swiftly, she laughs in scorn at the horse and its rider.
19 Do you give might to the horse? Do you clothe his neck [with] a mane?
Have you given the horse his strength? Did you clothe his neck with his flowing mane?
20 Do you cause him to rush as a locust? The splendor of his snorting [is] terrible.
Have you ever made him jump like a locust? The majesty of his snorting is fearsome.
21 They dig in a valley, and he rejoices in power, He goes forth to meet the armor.
He paws in might and rejoices in his strength; he rushes out to meet the weapons.
22 He laughs at fear, and is not frightened, And he does not turn back from the face of the sword.
He mocks fear and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword.
23 Quiver rattles against him, The flame of a spear, and a javelin.
The quiver rattles against his flank, along with the flashing spear and the javelin.
24 He swallows the ground with trembling and rage, And does not remain steadfast Because of the sound of a horn.
He swallows up ground with fierceness and rage; at the trumpet's sound, he cannot stand in one place.
25 Among the horns he says, Aha, And from afar he smells battle, Roaring of princes and shouting.
Whenever the trumpet sounds, he says, 'Aha!' He smells the battle from far away— the thunderous shouts of the commanders and the outcries.
26 By your understanding does a hawk fly? Does he spread his wings to the south?
Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, that he stretches out his wings for the south?
27 At your command does an eagle go up high? Or lift up his nest?
Is it at your orders that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest in high places?
28 He inhabits a rock, Indeed, he lodges on the tooth of a rock, and fortress.
He lives on cliffs and makes his home on the peaks of cliffs, a stronghold.
29 From there he has sought food, His eyes look attentively to a far-off place,
From there he searches for victims; his eyes see them from very far away.
30 And his brood sucks up blood, And where the pierced [are]—there [is] he!”
His young also drink up blood; where killed people are, there he is.”
