Job 39
1 to know time to beget goat crag to twist: give birth doe to keep: look at
“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
2 to recount month to fill and to know time to beget they
Can you count the months that they fulfil? Or do you know the time when they give birth?
3 to bow youth their to cleave pain their to send: let go
They bow themselves. They bear their young. They end their labour 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 out, and don’t return again.
5 who? to send: let go wild donkey free and bond wild donkey who? to open
“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
6 which to set: put plain house: home his and tabernacle his saltiness
whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?
7 to laugh to/for crowd town shout to oppress not to hear: hear
He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.
8 to spy mountain: mount pasture his and after all green to seek
The range of the mountains is his pasture. He searches after every green thing.
9 be willing wild ox to serve you if: surely no to lodge upon crib your
“Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
10 to conspire wild ox in/on/with furrow cord his if: surely no to harrow valley after you
Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?
11 to trust in/on/with him for many strength his and to leave: forsake to(wards) him toil your
Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labour?
12 be faithful in/on/with him for (to return: return *Q(K)*) seed your and threshing floor your to gather
Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?
13 wing ostrich to rejoice if: surely yes pinion stork and plumage
“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the feathers and plumage of love?
14 for to leave: forsake to/for land: country/planet egg her and upon dust to warm
For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,
15 and to forget for foot to crush her and living thing [the] land: wildlife to tread her
and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the 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 deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labour is in vain, she is without fear,
17 for to forget her god wisdom and not to divide to/for her in/on/with understanding
because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
18 like/as time in/on/with height to flap to laugh to/for horse and to/for to ride his
When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.
19 to give: give to/for horse might to clothe neck his mane
“Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?
20 to shake him like/as locust splendor snorting his terror
Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.
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 goes out to meet the armed men.
22 to laugh to/for dread and not to to be dismayed and not to return: return from face: before sword
He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn back from the sword.
23 upon him to rattle quiver flame spear and javelin
The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.
24 in/on/with quaking and turmoil to swallow land: soil and not be faithful for voice: sound trumpet
He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still 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
As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’ He smells 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
“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings towards the south?
27 if: surely no upon lip: word your to exult eagle and for to exalt nest his
Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?
28 crag to dwell and to lodge upon tooth: crag crag and fortress
On the cliff he dwells and makes his home, on the point of the cliff and the stronghold.
29 from there to search food to/for from distant eye his to look
From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.
30 (and young his *Q(K)*) to suck blood and in/on/with in which slain: killed there he/she/it
His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is.”
