| Job 39:1 |
Do you know the time when the mountain goats bring forth? / Can you mark [the time] when the hinds calve? |
| Job 39:2 |
Can you number the months that they must fulfill? / Or do you know the time when they bring forth? |
| Job 39:3 |
They crouch down; they give birth to their young ones; / They send forth their offspring. |
| Job 39:4 |
Their young become strong; they grow up in the open field; / They go forth and do not return to them. |
| Job 39:5 |
Who has sent out the wild ass free? / Or who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass, |
| Job 39:6 |
Whose home I have made the wilderness, / And the salt land, his dwelling place? |
| Job 39:7 |
He scorns the tumult of the city; / He does not hear the shouts of the driver. |
| Job 39:8 |
He searches out the mountains for his pasture / And seeks after every green thing. |
| Job 39:9 |
Will the wild ox be willing to serve you / Or spend the night by your manger? |
| Job 39:10 |
Can you bind the wild ox to the furrows with his ropes? / Or will he plow the valleys behind you? |
| Job 39:11 |
Will you trust in him because his strength is great? / Or will you leave your labor to him? |
| Job 39:12 |
Will you have confidence in him that he will bring in your seed / And gather [your grain] to your threshing floor? |
| Job 39:13 |
The wings of the ostrich flap joyously: / Are they the pinion and plumage of lovingkindness? |
| Job 39:14 |
For she leaves her eggs on the earth / And warms them in the dust. |
| Job 39:15 |
And she forgets that a foot may crush them / Or that an animal of the field may trample them. |
| Job 39:16 |
She is hard with her children, as if they were not hers; / Though her labor may be in vain, [she has] no fear; |
| Job 39:17 |
Because God has caused her to forget wisdom / And has not appointed understanding to her. |
| Job 39:18 |
At that time when she lifts herself up on high, / She scorns the horse and its rider. |
| Job 39:19 |
Have you given the horse [his] might? / Have you clothed his neck with the quivering mane? |
| Job 39:20 |
Have you made him to leap like a locust? / His majestic snorting is terrible. |
| Job 39:21 |
He paws in the valley, / And he rejoices in [his] strength; / He goes forth to meet weapons. |
| Job 39:22 |
He laughs at fear and is not dismayed, / And he does not turn back from the sword. |
| Job 39:23 |
A quiver [of arrows] rattles against him, / The flashing spear and the javelin. |
| Job 39:24 |
With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground, / And he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet. |
| Job 39:25 |
As often as the trumpet [sounds,] he says, Aha! / And from afar he smells the battle, / The thundering of captains and the shouting. |
| Job 39:26 |
Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars, / Stretching his wings to the south? |
| Job 39:27 |
Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up / And makes his nest on high? |
| Job 39:28 |
On the cliff he dwells and makes his lodging, / Upon the point of the cliff and the stronghold. |
| Job 39:29 |
From there he spies out food; / His eyes gaze on [it] from afar. |
| Job 39:30 |
And his young ones suck up the blood; / And where the slain are, there he is. |