Job 39
1 to know time to beget goat crag to twist: give birth doe to keep: look at
“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?
2 to recount month to fill and to know time to beget they
Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth?
3 to bow youth their to cleave pain their to send: let go
They crouch down and bring forth their young; they deliver their newborn.
4 be healthy son: child their to multiply in/on/with field to come out: come and not to return: return to/for them
Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return.
5 who? to send: let go wild donkey free and bond wild donkey who? to open
Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?
6 which to set: put plain house: home his and tabernacle his saltiness
I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
7 to laugh to/for crowd town shout to oppress not to hear: hear
He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.
8 to spy mountain: mount pasture his and after all green to seek
He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.
9 be willing wild ox to serve you if: surely no to lodge upon crib your
Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?
10 to conspire wild ox in/on/with furrow cord his if: surely no to harrow valley after you
Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?
11 to trust in/on/with him for many strength his and to leave: forsake to(wards) him toil your
Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?
12 be faithful in/on/with him for (to return: return *Q(K)*) seed your and threshing floor your to gather
Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
13 wing ostrich to rejoice if: surely yes pinion stork and plumage
The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.
14 for to leave: forsake to/for land: country/planet egg her and upon dust to warm
For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.
15 and to forget for foot to crush her and living thing [the] land: wildlife to tread her
She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.
16 to harden son: young animal her to/for not to/for her to/for vain toil her without dread
She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.
17 for to forget her god wisdom and not to divide to/for her in/on/with understanding
For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.
18 like/as time in/on/with height to flap to laugh to/for horse and to/for to ride his
Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.
19 to give: give to/for horse might to clothe neck his mane
Do you give strength to the horse or adorn his neck with a mane?
20 to shake him like/as locust splendor snorting his terror
Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting?
21 to search in/on/with valley and to rejoice in/on/with strength to come out: come to/for to encounter: meet weapon
He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he charges into battle.
22 to laugh to/for dread and not to to be dismayed and not to return: return from face: before sword
He laughs at fear, frightened of nothing; he does not turn back from the sword.
23 upon him to rattle quiver flame spear and javelin
A quiver rattles at his side, along with a flashing spear and lance.
24 in/on/with quaking and turmoil to swallow land: soil and not be faithful for voice: sound trumpet
Trembling with excitement, he devours the distance; he cannot stand still when the ram’s horn sounds.
25 in/on/with sufficiency trumpet to say Aha! and from distant to smell battle thunder ruler and shout
At the blast of the horn, he snorts with fervor. He catches the scent of battle from afar— the shouts of captains and the cry of war.
26 from understanding your to fly hawk to spread (wing his *Q(K)*) to/for south
Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south?
27 if: surely no upon lip: word your to exult eagle and for to exalt nest his
Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?
28 crag to dwell and to lodge upon tooth: crag crag and fortress
He dwells on a cliff and lodges there; his stronghold is on a rocky crag.
29 from there to search food to/for from distant eye his to look
From there he spies out food; his eyes see it from afar.
30 (and young his *Q(K)*) to suck blood and in/on/with in which slain: killed there he/she/it
His young ones feast on blood; and where the slain are, there he is.”
