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 number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?
| תספר ירחים תמלאנה וידעת עת לדתנה |
3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, they end their labor pains.
| תכרענה ילדיהן תפלחנה חבליהם תשלחנה |
4 Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go forth, and do not 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 נגש 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 labor?
| התבטח-בו כי-רב כחו ותעזב אליו יגיעך |
12 Will you have faith in him, that he will bring in your grain, and gather it to your threshing floor?
| התאמין בו כי-ישוב (ישיב) 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 labor 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 trumpet.
| ברעש ורגז יגמא-ארץ ולא-יאמין כי-קול שופר |
25 As often as the trumpet 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 toward 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 |
