איוב 39
| הידעת--עת לדת יעלי-סלע חלל אילות תשמר | 1 |
Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?
| תספר ירחים תמלאנה וידעת עת לדתנה | 2 |
Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?
| תכרענה ילדיהן תפלחנה חבליהם תשלחנה | 3 |
They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.
| יחלמו בניהם ירבו בבר יצאו ולא-שבו למו | 4 |
Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.
| מי-שלח פרא חפשי ומסרות ערוד מי פתח | 5 |
Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?
| אשר-שמתי ערבה ביתו ומשכנותיו מלחה | 6 |
To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.
| ישחק להמון קריה תשאות נגש לא ישמע | 7 |
He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;
| יתור הרים מרעהו ואחר כל-ירוק ידרוש | 8 |
He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.
| היאבה רים עבדך אם-ילין על-אבוסך | 9 |
Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?
| התקשר-רים בתלם עבתו אם-ישדד עמקים אחריך | 10 |
Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?
| התבטח-בו כי-רב כחו ותעזב אליו יגיעך | 11 |
Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?
| התאמין בו כי-ישוב (ישיב) זרעך וגרנך יאסף | 12 |
Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?
| כנף-רננים נעלסה אם-אברה חסידה ונצה | 13 |
Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,
| כי-תעזב לארץ בציה ועל-עפר תחמם | 14 |
That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,
| ותשכח כי-רגל תזורה וחית השדה תדושה | 15 |
Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?
| הקשיח בניה ללא-לה לריק יגיעה בלי-פחד | 16 |
She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.
| כי-השה אלוה חכמה ולא-חלק לה בבינה | 17 |
For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.
| כעת במרום תמריא תשחק לסוס ולרכבו | 18 |
When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.
| התתן לסוס גבורה התלביש צוארו רעמה | 19 |
Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?
| התרעישנו כארבה הוד נחרו אימה | 20 |
Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?
| יחפרו בעמק וישיש בכח יצא לקראת-נשק | 21 |
He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.
| ישחק לפחד ולא יחת ולא-ישוב מפני-חרב | 22 |
In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.
| עליו תרנה אשפה להב חנית וכידון | 23 |
The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow.
| ברעש ורגז יגמא-ארץ ולא-יאמין כי-קול שופר | 24 |
Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;
| בדי שפר יאמר האח-- ומרחוק יריח מלחמה רעם שרים ותרועה | 25 |
When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries.
| המבינתך יאבר-נץ יפרש כנפו לתימן | 26 |
Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?
| אם-על-פיך יגביה נשר וכי ירים קנו | 27 |
Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?
| סלע ישכן ויתלנן-- על שן-סלע ומצודה | 28 |
On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place.
| משם חפר-אכל למרחוק עיניו יביטו | 29 |
From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.
| ואפרחו יעלעו-דם ובאשר חללים שם הוא | 30 |
His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.
