Job 39
39
The LORD Continues: the Mountain Goats
1“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth?
Do you watch the does when they are in labor?
2Can you count the months they are pregnant
or know the time when they’ll give birth?
3They kneel down to give birth and deliver their young.
Then the pain of giving birth is over.
4Their young are healthy and grow up in the wild.
They leave and don’t come back.
The Wild Donkey
5“Who lets the wild donkey go free?
Who unties the ropes of the wild donkey?
6I gave it the desert to live in
and the salt flats as its dwelling place.
7It laughs at the noise of the city
and doesn’t ⌞even⌟ listen to the shouting of its master.
8It explores the mountains for its pasture
and looks for anything green.
The Wild Ox
9“Will the wild ox agree to serve you,
or will it stay at night beside your feeding trough?
10Can you guide a wild ox in a furrow,
or will it plow the valleys behind you?
11Can you trust it just because it’s so strong
or leave your labor to it?
12Can you rely on it to bring your grain back
and take it to your threshing floor? #39:12 A threshing floor is an outdoor area where grain is separated from its husks.
The Ostrich
13“Does the ostrich flap its wings in joy,
or do its wings lack feathers? #39:13 Or “Do its wings compare well with the wings and feathers of the stork?”
14It lays its eggs on the ground
and warms them in the dust.
15It forgets that a foot may crush them
or a wild animal may trample them.
16It acts harshly toward its young as if they weren’t its own.
It is not afraid that its work is for nothing
17because God has deprived it of wisdom
and did not give it any understanding.
18It laughs at the horse and its rider when it gets up to flee.
The Horse
19“Can you give strength to a horse
or dress its neck with a flowing mane?
20Can you make it leap like a locust,
when its snorting causes terror?
21It paws in strength and finds joy in its power.
It charges into battle.
22It laughs at fear,
is afraid of nothing,
and doesn’t back away from swords.
23A quiver of arrows rattles on it
along with the flashing spear and javelin.
24Anxious and excited, the horse eats up the ground
and doesn’t trust the sound of the ram’s horn.
25As often as the horn sounds, the horse says, ‘Aha!’
and it smells the battle far away—
the thundering ⌞orders⌟ of the captains and the battle cries.
The Birds of Prey
26“Does your understanding make a bird of prey fly
and spread its wings toward the south?
27Is it by your order that the eagle flies high
and makes its nest on the heights?
28It perches for the night on a cliff.
Its fortress is on a jagged peak.
29From there it seeks food,
and its eyes see it from far away.
30Its young ones feed on blood. It is found wherever there are dead bodies.”
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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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