< Job 39 >

1 to know time to beget goat crag to twist: give birth doe to keep: look at
Do you know at what time the wild goats have given birth among the rocks, or do you observe the deer when they go into labor?
2 to recount month to fill and to know time to beget they
Have you numbered the months since their conception, and do you know at what time they gave birth?
3 to bow youth their to cleave pain their to send: let go
They bend themselves for their offspring, and they give birth, and they emit roars.
4 be healthy son: child their to multiply in/on/with field to come out: come and not to return: return to/for them
Their young are weaned and go out to feed; they depart and do not return to them.
5 who? to send: let go wild donkey free and bond wild donkey who? to open
Who has set the wild ass free, and who has released his bonds?
6 which to set: put plain house: home his and tabernacle his saltiness
I have given a house in solitude to him, and his tabernacle is in the salted land.
7 to laugh to/for crowd town shout to oppress not to hear: hear
He despises the crowded city; he does not pay attention to the bellow of the tax collector.
8 to spy mountain: mount pasture his and after all green to seek
He looks around the mountains of his pasture, and he searches everywhere for green plants.
9 be willing wild ox to serve you if: surely no to lodge upon crib your
Will the rhinoceros be willing to serve you, and will he remain in your stall?
10 to conspire wild ox in/on/with furrow cord his if: surely no to harrow valley after you
Can you detain the rhinoceros with your harness to plough for you, and will he loosen the soil of the furrows behind you?
11 to trust in/on/with him for many strength his and to leave: forsake to(wards) him toil your
Will you put your faith in his great strength, and delegate your labors to him?
12 be faithful in/on/with him for (to return: return *QK) seed your and threshing floor your to gather
Will you trust him to return to you the seed, and to gather it on your drying floor?
13 wing ostrich to rejoice if: surely yes pinion stork and plumage
The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.
14 for to leave: forsake to/for land: country/planet egg her and upon dust to warm
When she leaves eggs behind in the earth, will you perhaps warm them in the dust?
15 and to forget for foot to crush her and living thing [the] land: wildlife to tread her
She forgets that feet may trample them, or that the beasts of the field may shatter them.
16 to harden son: young animal her to/for not to/for her to/for vain toil her without dread
She is hardened against her young, as if they were not hers; she has labored in vain, with no fear compelling her.
17 for to forget her god wisdom and not to divide to/for her in/on/with understanding
For God has deprived her of wisdom; neither has he given her understanding.
18 like/as time in/on/with height to flap to laugh to/for horse and to/for to ride his
Yet, when the time is right, she raises her wings on high; she ridicules the horse and his rider.
19 to give: give to/for horse might to clothe neck his mane
Will you supply strength to the horse, or envelope his throat with neighing?
20 to shake him like/as locust splendor snorting his terror
Will you alarm him as the locusts do? His panic is revealed by the display of his nostrils.
21 to search in/on/with valley and to rejoice in/on/with strength to come out: come to/for to encounter: meet weapon
He digs at the earth with his hoof; he jumps around boldly; he advances to meet armed men.
22 to laugh to/for dread and not to to be dismayed and not to return: return from face: before sword
He despises fear; he does not turn away from the sword.
23 upon him to rattle quiver flame spear and javelin
Above him, the quiver rattles, the spear and the shield shake.
24 in/on/with quaking and turmoil to swallow land: soil and not be faithful for voice: sound trumpet
Seething and raging, he drinks up the earth; neither does he pause when the blast of the trumpet sounds.
25 in/on/with sufficiency trumpet to say Aha! and from distant to smell battle thunder ruler and shout
When he hears the bugle, he says, “Ha!” He smells the battle from a distance, the exhortation of the officers, and the battle cry of the soldiers.
26 from understanding your to fly hawk to spread (wing his *QK) to/for south
Does the hawk grow feathers by means of your wisdom, spreading her wings towards the south?
27 if: surely no upon lip: word your to exult eagle and for to exalt nest his
Will the eagle lift herself up at your command and make her nest in steep places?
28 crag to dwell and to lodge upon tooth: crag crag and fortress
She dwells among the rocks, and she lingers among broken boulders and inaccessible cliffs.
29 from there to search food to/for from distant eye his to look
From there, she looks for food, and her eyes catch sight of it from far away.
30 (and young his *QK) to suck blood and in/on/with in which slain: killed there he/she/it
Her young will drink blood, and wherever the carcass will be, she is there immediately.

< Job 39 >