< Job 39 >
1 to know time to beget goat crag to twist: give birth doe to keep: look at
Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? dost thou mark the calving of the hinds?
2 to recount month to fill and to know time to beget they
Dost thou number the months that they fulfil? and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
3 to bow youth their to cleave pain their to send: let go
They bow themselves, they give birth to their young ones, they cast out their pains;
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 become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go forth, and return not unto them.
5 who? to send: let go wild donkey free and bond wild donkey who? to open
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager,
6 which to set: put plain house: home his and tabernacle his saltiness
Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?
7 to laugh to/for crowd town shout to oppress not to hear: hear
He laugheth at the tumult of the city, and heareth not the shouts of the driver;
8 to spy mountain: mount pasture his and after all green to seek
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
9 be willing wild ox to serve you if: surely no to lodge upon crib your
Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib?
10 to conspire wild ox in/on/with furrow cord his if: surely no to harrow valley after you
Canst thou bind the buffalo with his cord in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
11 to trust in/on/with him for many strength his and to leave: forsake to(wards) him toil your
Wilt thou put confidence in him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
12 be faithful in/on/with him for (to return: return *Q(K)*) seed your and threshing floor your to gather
Wilt thou trust him to bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor?
13 wing ostrich to rejoice if: surely yes pinion stork and plumage
The wing of the ostrich beats joyously — But is it the stork's pinion and plumage?
14 for to leave: forsake to/for land: country/planet egg her and upon dust to warm
For she leaveth her eggs to the earth, and warmeth them in the dust,
15 and to forget for foot to crush her and living thing [the] land: wildlife to tread her
And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may trample them.
16 to harden son: young animal her to/for not to/for her to/for vain toil her without dread
She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern.
17 for to forget her god wisdom and not to divide to/for her in/on/with understanding
For God hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding.
18 like/as time in/on/with height to flap to laugh to/for horse and to/for to ride his
What time she lasheth herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
19 to give: give to/for horse might to clothe neck his mane
Hast thou given strength to the horse? hast thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane?
20 to shake him like/as locust splendor snorting his terror
Dost thou make him to leap as a locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.
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 paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in [his] strength; he goeth forth to meet the armed host.
22 to laugh to/for dread and not to to be dismayed and not to return: return from face: before sword
He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from before the sword.
23 upon him to rattle quiver flame spear and javelin
The quiver rattleth upon him, the glittering spear and the javelin.
24 in/on/with quaking and turmoil to swallow land: soil and not be faithful for voice: sound trumpet
He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, and cannot contain himself at the sound of the trumpet:
25 in/on/with sufficiency trumpet to say Aha! and from distant to smell battle thunder ruler and shout
At the noise of the trumpets he saith, Aha! and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
26 from understanding your to fly hawk to spread (wing his *Q(K)*) to/for south
Doth the hawk fly by thine intelligence, [and] stretch his wings toward the south?
27 if: surely no upon lip: word your to exult eagle and for to exalt nest his
Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make his nest on high?
28 crag to dwell and to lodge upon tooth: crag crag and fortress
He inhabiteth the rock and maketh his dwelling on the point of the cliff, and the fastness:
29 from there to search food to/for from distant eye his to look
From thence he spieth out the prey, his eyes look into the distance;
30 (and young his *Q(K)*) to suck blood and in/on/with in which slain: killed there he/she/it
And his young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is he.