Job 39
1 “Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
| הידעת עת לדת יעלי סלע חלל אילות תשמר׃ |
2 Can you count the months that they fulfil? Or do you know the time when they give birth?
| תספר ירחים תמלאנה וידעת עת לדתנה׃ |
3 They bow themselves. They bear their young. They end their labour pains.
| תכרענה ילדיהן תפלחנה חבליהם תשלחנה׃ |
4 Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go out, and don’t return again.
| יחלמו בניהם ירבו בבר יצאו ולא שבו למו׃ |
5 “Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
| מי שלח פרא חפשי ומסרות ערוד מי פתח׃ |
6 whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?
| אשר שמתי ערבה ביתו ומשכנותיו מלחה׃ |
7 He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.
| ישחק להמון קריה תשאות נוגש לא ישמע׃ |
8 The range of the mountains is his pasture. He searches after every green thing.
| יתור הרים מרעהו ואחר כל ירוק ידרוש׃ |
9 “Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
| היאבה רים עבדך אם ילין על אבוסך׃ |
10 Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?
| התקשר רים בתלם עבתו אם ישדד עמקים אחריך׃ |
11 Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labour?
| התבטח בו כי רב כחו ותעזב אליו יגיעך׃ |
12 Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?
| התאמין בו כי ישוב זרעך וגרנך יאסף׃ |
13 “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the feathers and plumage of love?
| כנף רננים נעלסה אם אברה חסידה ונצה׃ |
14 For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,
| כי תעזב לארץ בציה ועל עפר תחמם׃ |
15 and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.
| ותשכח כי רגל תזורה וחית השדה תדושה׃ |
16 She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labour is in vain, she is without fear,
| הקשיח בניה ללא לה לריק יגיעה בלי פחד׃ |
17 because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
| כי השה אלוה חכמה ולא חלק לה בבינה׃ |
18 When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.
| כעת במרום תמריא תשחק לסוס ולרכבו׃ |
19 “Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?
| התתן לסוס גבורה התלביש צוארו רעמה׃ |
20 Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.
| התרעישנו כארבה הוד נחרו אימה׃ |
21 He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.
| יחפרו בעמק וישיש בכח יצא לקראת נשק׃ |
22 He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn back from the sword.
| ישחק לפחד ולא יחת ולא ישוב מפני חרב׃ |
23 The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.
| עליו תרנה אשפה להב חנית וכידון׃ |
24 He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the shofar.
| ברעש ורגז יגמא ארץ ולא יאמין כי קול שופר׃ |
25 As often as the shofar sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
| בדי שפר יאמר האח ומרחוק יריח מלחמה רעם שרים ותרועה׃ |
26 “Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings towards the south?
| המבינתך יאבר נץ יפרש כנפו לתימן׃ |
27 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?
| אם על פיך יגביה נשר וכי ירים קנו׃ |
28 On the cliff he dwells and makes his home, on the point of the cliff and the stronghold.
| סלע ישכן ויתלנן על שן סלע ומצודה׃ |
29 From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.
| משם חפר אכל למרחוק עיניו יביטו׃ |
30 His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is.”
| ואפרחו יעלעו דם ובאשר חללים שם הוא׃ |
