< Job 39 >

1 Knowest thou the season when the Wild Goats of the crags beget? The bringing forth of the hinds, canst thou observe?
to know time to beget goat crag to twist: give birth doe to keep: look at
2 Canst thou count the months they fulfil? Or knowest thou the time when they give birth?
to recount month to fill and to know time to beget they
3 They kneel down, their young, they bring forth; their pains, they throw off;
to bow youth their to cleave pain their to send: let go
4 Their young become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go out, 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 hath sent forth the Wild Ass free? And, the bands of the swift-runner, who hath loosed?
who? to send: let go wild donkey free and bond wild donkey who? to open
6 Whose house I have made the waste plain, and his dwellings, the land of salt:
which to set: put plain house: home his and tabernacle his saltiness
7 He laugheth at the throng of the city, The shoutings of the driver, he heareth not;
to laugh to/for crowd town shout to oppress not to hear: hear
8 He espieth the mountains, his pasture-ground, and, after every green thing, maketh search.
to spy mountain: mount pasture his and after all green to seek
9 Will the Wild-Ox be pleased to be thy servant? or lodge for the night by thy crib?
be willing wild ox to serve you if: surely no to lodge upon crib your
10 Canst thou bind the wild-ox, so that—with the ridge—shall run his cord? Or will he harrow the furrows after thee?
to conspire wild ox in/on/with furrow cord his if: surely no to harrow valley after you
11 Wilt thou trust in him, because of the greatness of his strength? Wilt thou leave unto him thy toil?
to trust in/on/with him for many strength his and to leave: forsake to(wards) him toil your
12 Wilt thou put faith in him, that he will bring back thy seed? and that, corn for thy threshing-floor, he will gather?
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 that waveth itself joyfully, Is it the pinion of lovingkindness or the plumage?
wing ostrich to rejoice if: surely yes pinion stork and plumage
14 For she leaveth—to the earth—her eggs, and, on the dust, she letteth them be warmed;
for to leave: forsake to/for land: country/planet egg her and upon dust to warm
15 And hath forgotten, that, a foot, may crush them, —or, the wild beast, tread on them!
and to forget for foot to crush her and living thing [the] land: wildlife to tread her
16 Dealing hardly with her young, as none-of-hers, In vain, her labour, without dread.
to harden son: young animal her to/for not to/for her to/for vain toil her without dread
17 For GOD hath suffered her to forget wisdom, and given her no share in understanding.
for to forget her god wisdom and not to divide to/for her in/on/with understanding
18 What time, on high, she vibrateth her wings, 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 Couldst thou give—to the Horse—strength? Couldst thou clothe his neck with the quivering mane?
to give: give to/for horse might to clothe neck his mane
20 Couldst thou cause him to leap like a locust? The majesty of his snort, is a terror!
to shake him like/as locust splendor snorting his terror
21 He diggeth into the plain, and rejoiceth in vigour, he goeth forth to meet armour;
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 dread, and is not dismayed, neither turneth he 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 Against him, whiz [the arrows of] the quiver, the flashing head of spear and javelin;
upon him to rattle quiver flame spear and javelin
24 With stamping and rage, he drinketh up the ground, —he will not stand still when the horn soundeth;
in/on/with quaking and turmoil to swallow land: soil and not be faithful for voice: sound trumpet
25 As oft as the horn soundeth, he saith, Aha! And, from afar, he scenteth the battle, —the thunder of commanders and the war-cry.
in/on/with sufficiency trumpet to say Aha! and from distant to smell battle thunder ruler and shout
26 Is it, by thine understanding, that the Bird of Passage betaketh him to his pinions? spreadeth out his wings to the south?
from understanding your to fly hawk to spread (wing his *Q(K)*) to/for south
27 Or, at thy bidding, that the Eagle mounteth, and that he setteth on high his nest?
if: surely no upon lip: word your to exult eagle and for to exalt nest his
28 The crag, he inhabiteth, and so lodgeth himself, on the tooth of the crag, and high fort;
crag to dwell and to lodge upon tooth: crag crag and fortress
29 From thence, he searcheth out food, far away, his eyes do pierce;
from there to search food to/for from distant eye his to look
30 And, his young brood, suck up blood, and, where the slain are, there, is he.
(and young his *Q(K)*) to suck blood and in/on/with in which slain: killed there he/she/it

< Job 39 >