< Job 39 >

1 to know time to beget goat crag to twist: give birth doe to keep: look at
[Say] if you know the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock, and [if] you have marked the calving of the hinds:
2 to recount month to fill and to know time to beget they
and [if] you has have numbered the full months of their being with young, and [if] you have relieved their pangs:
3 to bow youth their to cleave pain their to send: let go
and have reared their young without fear; and will you loosen their pangs?
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 will break forth; they will be multiplied with offspring: [their young] will go forth, and will not return to them.
5 who? to send: let go wild donkey free and bond wild donkey who? to open
And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? and who loosed his bands?
6 which to set: put plain house: home his and tabernacle his saltiness
whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, and the salt land his coverts.
7 to laugh to/for crowd town shout to oppress not to hear: hear
He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer.
8 to spy mountain: mount pasture his and after all green to seek
He will survey the mountains [as] his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing.
9 be willing wild ox to serve you if: surely no to lodge upon crib your
And will the unicorn be willing to serve you, or to lie down at your manger?
10 to conspire wild ox in/on/with furrow cord his if: surely no to harrow valley after you
And will you bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plow furrows for you in the plain?
11 to trust in/on/with him for many strength his and to leave: forsake to(wards) him toil your
And do you trust him, because his strength is great? and will you commit your works to him?
12 be faithful in/on/with him for (to return: return *Q(K)*) seed your and threshing floor your to gather
And will you believe that he will return to you your seed, and bring [it] in [to] your threshing floor?
13 wing ostrich to rejoice if: surely yes pinion stork and plumage
The peacock has a beautiful wing: if the stork and the ostrich conceive, [it is worthy of notice],
14 for to leave: forsake to/for land: country/planet egg her and upon dust to warm
for [the ostrich] will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust,
15 and to forget for foot to crush her and living thing [the] land: wildlife to tread her
and has forgotten that the foot will scatter them, and the wild beasts of the field trample them.
16 to harden son: young animal her to/for not to/for her to/for vain toil her without dread
She has hardened [herself] against her young ones, as though [she bereaved] not herself: she labors in vain without fear.
17 for to forget her god wisdom and not to divide to/for her in/on/with understanding
For God has withholden wisdom from her, and not given her a portion in understanding.
18 like/as time in/on/with height to flap to laugh to/for horse and to/for to ride his
In her season she will lift herself on high; she will scorn the horse and his rider.
19 to give: give to/for horse might to clothe neck his mane
Hast you invested the horse with strength, and clothed his neck with terror?
20 to shake him like/as locust splendor snorting his terror
And have you clad him in perfect armor, and made his breast glorious with courage?
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 paws exulting in the plain, and goes forth in strength into the plain.
22 to laugh to/for dread and not to to be dismayed and not to return: return from face: before sword
He laughs to scorn a king as he meets him, and will by no means turn back from the sword.
23 upon him to rattle quiver flame spear and javelin
The bow and sword resound against him; and [his] rage will swallow up the ground:
24 in/on/with quaking and turmoil to swallow land: soil and not be faithful for voice: sound trumpet
and he will not believe until the trumpet sounds.
25 in/on/with sufficiency trumpet to say Aha! and from distant to smell battle thunder ruler and shout
And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! and afar off he smells the war with prancing and neighing.
26 from understanding your to fly hawk to spread (wing his *Q(K)*) to/for south
And does the hawk remain steady by your wisdom, having spread out her wings unmoved, looking toward the region of the south?
27 if: surely no upon lip: word your to exult eagle and for to exalt nest his
And does the eagle rise at your command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest,
28 crag to dwell and to lodge upon tooth: crag crag and fortress
on a crag of a rock, and in a secret [place]?
29 from there to search food to/for from distant eye his to look
Thence he seeks food, his eyes observe from far.
30 (and young his *Q(K)*) to suck blood and in/on/with in which slain: killed there he/she/it
And his young ones roll themselves in blood, and wherever the carcasses may be, immediately they are found.

< Job 39 >