Job 39

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth among the rocks, or hast thou observed the hinds when they fawn?	1 Do you know about the birth of the mountain goats, watch for the birth pangs of the hinds,
2 Hast thou numbered the months of their conceiving, or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?	2 Number the months that they must fulfill, and fix the time of their bringing forth?
3 They bow themselves to bring forth young, and they cast them, and send forth roarings.	3 They crouch down and bear their young; they deliver their progeny in the desert.
4 Their young are weaned and go to feed : they go forth, and return not to them.	4 When their offspring thrive and grow, they leave and do not return.
5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bonds?	5 Who has given the wild ass his freedom, and who has loosed him from bonds?
6 To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land.	6 I have made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, he heareth not the cry of the driver.	7 He scoffs at the uproar of the city, and hears no shouts of a driver.
8 He looketh round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh for every green thing.	8 He ranges the mountains for pasture, and seeks out every patch of green.
9 Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at thy crib?	9 Will the wild ox consent to serve you, and to pass the nights by your manger?
10 Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with thy thong to plough, or will he break the clods of the valleys after thee?	10 Will a rope bind him in the furrow, and will he harrow the valleys after you?
11 Wilt thou have confidence in his great strength, and leave thy labours to him?	11 Will you trust him for his great strength and leave to him the fruits of your toil?
12 Wilt thou trust him that he will render thee the seed, and gather it into thy barnfloor?	12 Can you rely on him to thresh out your grain and gather in the yield of your threshing floor?
13 The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.	13 The wings of the ostrich beat idly; her plumage is lacking in pinions.
14 When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust.	14 When she leaves her eggs on the ground and deposits them in the sand,
15 She forgetteth that the foot may tread upon them, or that the beasts of the field may break them.	15 Unmindful that a foot may crush them, that the wild beasts may trample them,
16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her.	16 She cruelly disowns her young and ruthlessly makes nought of her brood;
17 For God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he given her understanding.	17 For God has withheld wisdom from her and has given her no share in understanding.
18 When time shall be, she setteth up her wings on high : she scorneth the horse and his rider.	18 Yet in her swiftness of foot she makes sport of the horse and his rider.
19 Wilt thou give strength to the horse, or clothe his neck with neighing?	19 Do you give the horse his strength, and endow his neck with splendor?
20 Wilt thou lift him up like the locusts? the glory of his nostrils is terror.	20 Do you make the steed to quiver while his thunderous snorting spreads terror?
21 He breaketh up the earth with his hoof, he pranceth boldly, he goeth forward to meet armed men.	21 He jubilantly paws the plain and rushes in his might against the weapons.
22 He despiseth fear, he turneth not his back to the sword,	22 He laughs at fear and cannot be deterred; he turns not back from the sword.
23 Above him shall the quiver rattle, the spear and shield shall glitter.	23 Around him rattles the quiver, flashes the spear and the javelin.
24 Chasing and raging he swalloweth the ground, neither doth he make account when the noise of the trumpet soundeth.	24 Frenzied and trembling he devours the ground; he holds not back at the sound of the trumpet,
25 When 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.	25 but at each blast he cries, "Aha!" Even from afar he scents the battle, the roar of the chiefs and the shouting.
26 Doth the hawk wax feathered by thy wisdom, spreading her wings to the south?	26 Is it by your discernment that the hawk soars, that he spreads his wings toward the south?
27 Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest in high places?	27 Does the eagle fly up at your command to build his nest aloft?
28 She abideth among the rocks, and dwelleth among cragged flints, and stony hills, where there is no access.	28 On the cliff he dwells and spends the night, on the spur of the cliff or the fortress.
29 From thence she looketh for the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.	29 From thence he watches for his prey; his eyes behold it afar off.
30 Her young ones shall suck up blood : and wheresoever the carcass shall be, she is immediately there.	30 His young ones greedily drink blood; where the slain are, there is he.
31 And the Lord went on, and said to Job :
32 Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely he that reproveth God, ought to answer him.
33 Then Job answered the Lord, and said :
34 One thing I have spoken, which I wish I had not said : and another, to which I will add no more.