Job 39
39
1Do you know when mountain goats are born?
Have you watched wild deer give birth?
2Do you know how long they carry their young?
Do you know the time for their birth?
3Do you know when they will crouch down
and bring their young into the world?
4In the wilds their young grow strong;
they go away and don't come back.
5Who gave the wild donkeys their freedom?
Who turned them loose and let them roam?
6I gave them the desert to be their home,
and let them live on the salt plains.
7They keep far away from the noisy cities,
and no one can tame them and make them work.
8The mountains are the pastures where they feed,
where they search for anything green to eat.
9Will a wild ox work for you?
Is he willing to spend the night in your stable?
10Can you hold one with a rope and make him plough?
Or make him pull a harrow in your fields?
11Can you rely on his great strength
and expect him to do your heavy work?
12Do you expect him to bring in your harvest
and gather the grain from your threshing place?
13How fast the wings of an ostrich beat!
But no ostrich can fly like a stork.#39.13 Verse 13 in Hebrew is unclear.
14The ostrich leaves her eggs on the ground
for the heat in the soil to warm them.
15She is unaware that a foot may crush them
or a wild animal break them.
16She acts as if the eggs were not hers,
and is unconcerned that her efforts were wasted.
17It was I who made her foolish
and did not give her wisdom.
18But when she begins to run,#39.18 Probable text run; Hebrew unclear.
she can laugh at any horse and rider.
19Was it you, Job, who made horses so strong
and gave them their flowing manes?
20Did you make them leap like locusts
and frighten people with their snorting?
21They eagerly paw the ground in the valley;
they rush into battle with all their strength.
22They do not know the meaning of fear,
and no sword can turn them back.
23The weapons which their riders carry
rattle and flash in the sun.
24Trembling with excitement, the horses race ahead;
when the trumpet blows, they can't stand still.
25At each blast of the trumpet they snort;
they can smell a battle before they get near,
and they hear the officers shouting commands.
26Does a hawk learn from you how to fly
when it spreads its wings towards the south?
27Does an eagle wait for your command
to build its nest high in the mountains?
28It makes its home on the highest rocks
and makes the sharp peaks its fortress.
29From there it watches near and far
for something to kill and eat.
30 #
Mt 24.28; Lk 17.37 Around dead bodies the eagles gather,
and the young eagles drink the blood.
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Iyov 39
39
1Dost thou have da'as of the et (time) when the mountain goats give birth, or art thou shomer to watch when the doe bears her fawn?
2Canst thou number the months that they fulfil, or dost thou have da'as of the et (time) when they give birth?
3They crouch down, they bring forth their yeledim, their chavalim (birth pains) are cast off in riddance.
4Their banim gain strength, they grow up in the bar (open, wild); they go forth, and return not unto them.
5Who hath sent out the pere (wild donkey) free, or who hath untied the ropes of the arod (wild donkey, onager),
6Whose bais I have made the aravah, and the barren land his mishkenot (dwellings)?
7He laughs at the tumult of the kiryah (city), neither regardeth he the shouts of the driver.
8The range of the harim is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
9Will the wild ox be willing to be thy eved, or stay the night by thy evus (animal feeding trough)?
10Canst thou bind the wild ox to the furrow with a rope, or will it behind thee till the amakim (valleys)?
11Wilt thou depend on him, because his ko'ach is great, or wilt thou hand over thy heavy work to him?
12Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring in thy zera (grain), and gather it into thy goren (threshing floor)?
13Joyfully flapping are the wings of the ostrich, but are her wings and feathers like the khasidah (stork)?
14For the ostrich layeth her betzim (eggs) la'aretz (on the ground), and warmeth them in the sand,
15And forgetteth that the regel may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
16She treats harshly her banim, as though they were not hers; though her labor should be in vain, yet she is without pachad (fear, care),
17Because Elo'ah hath deprived her of chochmah, neither hath he imparted to her binah.
18Yet at the et (time) she flaps her wings [to run], she laughs at the sus and his rider.
19Hast thou given the sus gevurah? Hast thou clothed his neck with a flowing mane?
20Canst thou make him leap like an arbeh (locust)? The hod (glory) of his snorting strikes terror.
21He paweth in the emek (valley), and rejoiceth in his koach; he chargeth into the fray.
22He laugheth at pachad, and nothing fears; neither turneth he back from the cherev.
23The quiver rattleth at his side, the glittering spear and the kidon (scimitar, curved sword).
24He eats up the eretz with fierceness and rogez (rage); neither standeth he still at the sound of the shofar.
25As often as the shofar, he snorts Aha! and he smelleth the milchamah afar off, the shout of the sarim, and the teru'ah (battle cry).
26Doth the hawk fly by thy binah, and stretch her wings toward the south?
27Doth the nesher (eagle) mount up at thy command, and make her ken (nest) on high?
28She dwelleth and abideth on the cliff, upon the crag of the rock, its metzudah (stronghold).
29From there she seeketh the okhel (food, prey), and her eyes behold it from afar off.
30Her young ones feast on dahm; and where the chalalim (slain ones) are, there it is.
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