Job 39
1 “[Job], do you know at what time/season [of the year] the female mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the wild deer while their fawns were being born?
| הידעת--עת לדת יעלי-סלע חלל אילות תשמר |
2 Do you know how many months pass from the time they become pregnant until their fawns are born?
| תספר ירחים תמלאנה וידעת עת לדתנה |
3 [When they give birth, ] they crouch down so that the fawns do not [get hurt by] falling to the ground when they are born.
| תכרענה ילדיהן תפלחנה חבליהם תשלחנה |
4 The young fawns grow up in the open fields, and then they leave their mothers and do not return to them again.
| יחלמו בניהם ירבו בבר יצאו ולא-שבו למו |
5 “Who allows the wild donkeys to go wherever they want [DOU]?
| מי-שלח פרא חפשי ומסרות ערוד מי פתח |
6 I am the one who put them in the desert, in places where grass does not grow.
| אשר-שמתי ערבה ביתו ומשכנותיו מלחה |
7 They do not like the noise in the cities; [in the desert] they do not have to listen to the shouts of those who force donkeys to work.
| ישחק להמון קריה תשאות נגש לא ישמע |
8 They go to the hills to find food; there they search for grass to eat.
| יתור הרים מרעהו ואחר כל-ירוק ידרוש |
9 :Will a wild ox agree to work for you? Will it allow you to keep it penned up at night in the place where you put feed for your animals?
| היאבה רים עבדך אם-ילין על-אבוסך |
10 And can you fasten it with a rope so that it will plow furrows/trenches in your fields?
| התקשר-רים בתלם עבתו אם-ישדד עמקים אחריך |
11 Since it is very strong, can you trust it to work for you? Can you go away after you tell it what work it should do [and assume that it will do that work]?
| התבטח-בו כי-רב כחו ותעזב אליו יגיעך |
12 Can you rely on it to come back [from the field], bringing your grain to the place where you thresh it?
| התאמין בו כי-ישוב (ישיב) זרעך וגרנך יאסף |
13 “[Think also about] the ostriches. [They] joyfully flap their wings, but they do not have wing feathers [that enable them to fly] like storks do.
| כנף-רננים נעלסה אם-אברה חסידה ונצה |
14 Ostriches lay their eggs on top of the ground [and then walk away], leaving the eggs to be warmed in the sand.
| כי-תעזב לארץ בציה ועל-עפר תחמם |
15 Ostriches do not worry that some wild animal may step on the eggs and crush them [DOU].
| ותשכח כי-רגל תזורה וחית השדה תדושה |
16 Ostriches act cruelly towards their chicks; they act as though the chicks belonged to some other ostrich. They are not concerned if [their chicks die], [and so] the laying of the eggs was in vain.
| הקשיח בניה ללא-לה לריק יגיעה בלי-פחד |
17 That is because I did not allow ostriches to be wise. I did not enable them to be intelligent.
| כי-השה אלוה חכמה ולא-חלק לה בבינה |
18 But, when they get up and begin to run, they scornfully laugh at horses with their riders [because the horses cannot run as fast as the ostriches!]
| כעת במרום תמריא תשחק לסוס ולרכבו |
19 And [think about] horses. [Job], are you the one who caused horses to be strong? Are you the one who put flowing (manes/long hair) on their necks?
| התתן לסוס גבורה התלביש צוארו רעמה |
20 Are you the one who enabled them to leap forward like locusts? When they (snort/blow loudly through their noses), they cause people to be afraid.
| התרעישנו כארבה הוד נחרו אימה |
21 They paw the ground, rejoicing about being very strong, as they prepare to rush into a battle.
| יחפרו בעמק וישיש בכח יצא לקראת-נשק |
22 [It is as if] they laugh at the thought of being afraid. They are not afraid of anything! They do not run away when [the soldiers in the battle are fighting each other with] swords.
| ישחק לפחד ולא יחת ולא-ישוב מפני-חרב |
23 The quivers containing the riders’ arrows rattle against the horses’ sides, and the spears and javelins flash [in the light of the sun].
| עליו תרנה אשפה להב חנית וכידון |
24 The horses paw the ground fiercely/excitedly, [wanting the battle to begin, ] and they rush into the battle when the trumpet is blown.
| ברעש ורגז יגמא-ארץ ולא-יאמין כי-קול שופר |
25 They neigh [joyfully] when they hear someone blowing the trumpet. They can smell a battle even when they are far away, and they understand what it means when the commanders shout their commands [to their soldiers].
| בדי שפר יאמר האח-- ומרחוק יריח מלחמה רעם שרים ותרועה |
26 “[And think about big birds.] Are you the one who enabled hawks to spread their wings and fly to the south [for the winter]?
| המבינתך יאבר-נץ יפרש כנפו לתימן |
27 Do eagles fly high up [into the cliffs] to make their nests because you commanded them to do that?
| אם-על-פיך יגביה נשר וכי ירים קנו |
28 They live in [holes in] those cliffs. They are safe in those high pointed rocks [because no animals can reach them there].
| סלע ישכן ויתלנן-- על שן-סלע ומצודה |
29 As they watch carefully from there, they see far away the animals that they can kill (OR, dead bodies of animals).
| משם חפר-אכל למרחוק עיניו יביטו |
30 After an eagle kills an animal, the baby eagles drink the blood of that animal.”
| ואפרחו יעלעו-דם ובאשר חללים שם הוא |
