Job 39

1Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?

1Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth among the rocks, or hast thou observed the hinds when they fawn?

1Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? dost thou mark the calving of the hinds?

2Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?

2Hast thou numbered the months of their conceiving, or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

2Dost thou number the months that they fulfil? and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

3They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.

3They bow themselves to bring forth young, and they cast them, and send forth roarings.

3They bow themselves, they give birth to their young ones, they cast out their pains;

4Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.

4Their young are weaned and go to feed: they go forth, and return not to them.

4Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go forth, and return not unto them.

5Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?

5Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bonds?

5Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager,

6To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.

6To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land.

6Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?

7He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;

7He scorneth the multitude of the city, he heareth not the cry of the driver.

7He laugheth at the tumult of the city, and heareth not the shouts of the driver;

8He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.

8He looketh round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh for every green thing.

8The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

9Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?

9Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at thy crib?

9Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib?

10Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?

10Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with thy thong to plough, or will he break the clods of the valleys after thee?

10Canst thou bind the buffalo with his cord in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

11Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?

11Wilt thou have confidence in his great strength, and leave thy labours to him?

11Wilt thou put confidence in him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

12Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?

12Wilt thou trust him that he will render thee the seed, and gather it into thy barnfloor?

12Wilt thou trust him to bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor?

13Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,

13The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.

13The wing of the ostrich beats joyously — But is it the stork's pinion and plumage?

14That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,

14When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust.

14For she leaveth her eggs to the earth, and warmeth them in the dust,

15Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?

15She forgetteth that the foot may tread upon them, or that the beasts of the field may break them.

15And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may trample them.

16She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.

16She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her.

16She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern.

17For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.

17For God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he given her understanding.

17ForGod hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding.

18When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.

18When time shall be, she setteth up her wings on high: she scorneth the horse and his rider.

18What time she lasheth herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

19Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?

19Wilt thou give strength to the horse or clothe his neck with neighing?

19Hast thou given strength to the horse? hast thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane?

20Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?

20Wilt thou lift him up like the locusts? the glory of his nostrils is terror.

20Dost thou make him to leap as a locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.

21He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.

21He breaketh up the earth with his hoof, he pranceth boldly, he goeth forward to meet armed men.

21He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in [his] strength; he goeth forth to meet the armed host.

22In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.

22He despiseth fear, he turneth not his back to the sword.

22He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from before the sword.

23The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow.

23Above him shall the quiver rattle, the spear and shield shall glitter.

23The quiver rattleth upon him, the glittering spear and the javelin.

24Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;

24Chasing and raging he swalloweth the ground, neither doth he make account when the noise of the trumpet soundeth.

24He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, and cannot contain himself at the sound of the trumpet:

25When 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.

25When he heareth the trumpet he saith: Ha, ha: he smelleth the battle afar off, the encouraging of the captains, and the shouting of the army.

25At the noise of the trumpets he saith, Aha! and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

26Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?

26Doth the hawk wax feathered by thy wisdom, spreading her wings to the south?

26Doth the hawk fly by thine intelligence, [and] stretch his wings toward the south?

27Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?

27Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest in high places?

27Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make his nest on high?

28On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place.

28She abideth among the rocks, and dwelleth among cragged flints, and stony hills, where there is no access.

28He inhabiteth the rock and maketh his dwelling on the point of the cliff, and the fastness:

29From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.

29From thence she looketh for the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.

29From thence he spieth out the prey, his eyes look into the distance;

30His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.

30Her young ones shall suck up blood: and wheresoever the carcass shall be, she is immediately there.

30And his young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is he.

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31And the Lord went on, and said to Job:

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32Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely he that reproveth God, ought to answer him.

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33Then Job answered the Lord, and said:

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34What can I answer, who hath spoken inconsiderately? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

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35One thing I have spoken, which I wish I had not said: and another, to which I will add no more.

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