Job 39

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?	1 Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you ever watched deer in labour?
2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?	2 Have you ever counted the months that they carry their young? Do you know when they give birth?
3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.	3 They crouch to drop their young, they get rid of their burdens
4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.	4 and the calves, having grown big and strong, go off into the desert and never come back to them.
5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?	5 Who has given the wild donkey his freedom, who has undone the harness of the brayer?
6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.	6 I have given him the wastelands as his home, the salt plain as his habitat.
7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.	7 He scorns the turmoil of the town, obeys no donkey-man's shouts.
8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.	8 The mountains are the pastures that he ranges in quest of anything green.
9 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?	9 Is the wild ox willing to serve you or spend a night beside your manger?
10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?	10 If you tie a rope round his neck wil he harrow the furrows for you?
11 Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?	11 Can you rely on his massive strength and leave him to do your heavy work?
12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?	12 Can you depend on him to come home and pile your grain on your threshing-floor?
13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?	13 Can the wing of the ostrich be compared with the plumage of stork or falcon?
14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,	14 She leaves her eggs on the ground with only earth to warm them;
15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.	15 forgetting that a foot may tread on them or a wild animal crush them.
16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;	16 Cruel to her chicks as if they were not hers, little she cares if her labour goes for nothing.
17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.	17 God, you see, has deprived her of wisdom and given her no share of intel igence.
18 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.	18 Yet, if she bestirs herself to use her height, she can make fools of horse and rider too.
19 Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?	19 Are you the one who makes the horse so brave and covers his neck with flowing mane?
20 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.	20 Do you make him leap like a grasshopper? His haughty neighing inspires terror.
21 He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.	21 Exultantly he paws the soil of the val ey, and charges the battle-line in all his strength.
22 He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.	22 He laughs at fear; he is afraid of nothing, he recoils before no sword.
23 The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.	23 On his back the quiver rattles, the flashing spear and javelin.
24 He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.	24 Trembling with impatience, he eats up the miles; when the trumpet sounds, there is no holding him.
25 He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.	25 At each trumpet blast he neighs exultantly. He scents the battle from afar, the thundering of thecommanders and the war cry.
26 Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?	26 Is it your wisdom that sets the hawk flying when he spreads his wings to travel south?
27 Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?	27 Does the eagle soar at your command to make her eyrie in the heights?
28 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.	28 She spends her nights among the crags with a needle of rock as her fortress,
29 From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.	29 from which she watches for prey, fixing it with her far-ranging eye.
30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.	30 Even her young drink blood; where anyone has been killed, she is there.