Job 39

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 Do you know about the birth of the mountain goats, watch for the birth pangs of the hinds,	1 "Do you know when the mountain goats bring forth? Do you observe the calving of the hinds?
2 Number the months that they must fulfill, and fix the time of their bringing forth?	2 Can you number the months that they fulfil, and do you know the time when they bring forth,
3 They crouch down and bear their young; they deliver their progeny in the desert.	3 when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young?
4 When their offspring thrive and grow, they leave and do not return.	4 Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth, and do not return to them.
5 Who has given the wild ass his freedom, and who has loosed him from bonds?	5 "Who has let the wild ass go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,
6 I have made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.	6 to whom I have given the steppe for his home, and the salt land for his dwelling place?
7 He scoffs at the uproar of the city, and hears no shouts of a driver.	7 He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver.
8 He ranges the mountains for pasture, and seeks out every patch of green.	8 He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
9 Will the wild ox consent to serve you, and to pass the nights by your manger?	9 "Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your crib?
10 Will a rope bind him in the furrow, and will he harrow the valleys after you?	10 Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?
11 Will you trust him for his great strength and leave to him the fruits of your toil?	11 Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor?
12 Can you rely on him to thresh out your grain and gather in the yield of your threshing floor?	12 Do you have faith in him that he will return, and bring your grain to your threshing floor?
13 The wings of the ostrich beat idly; her plumage is lacking in pinions.	13 "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the pinions and plumage of love?
14 When she leaves her eggs on the ground and deposits them in the sand,	14 For she leaves her eggs to the earth, and lets them be warmed on the ground,
15 Unmindful that a foot may crush them, that the wild beasts may trample them,	15 forgetting that a foot may crush them, and that the wild beast may trample them.
16 She cruelly disowns her young and ruthlessly makes nought of her brood;	16 She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear;
17 For God has withheld wisdom from her and has given her no share in understanding.	17 because God has made her forget wisdom, and given her no share in understanding.
18 Yet in her swiftness of foot she makes sport of the horse and his rider.	18 When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider.
19 Do you give the horse his strength, and endow his neck with splendor?	19 "Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with strength?
20 Do you make the steed to quiver while his thunderous snorting spreads terror?	20 Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.
21 He jubilantly paws the plain and rushes in his might against the weapons.	21 He paws in the valley, and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons.
22 He laughs at fear and cannot be deterred; he turns not back from the sword.	22 He laughs at fear, and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword.
23 Around him rattles the quiver, flashes the spear and the javelin.	23 Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear and the javelin.
24 Frenzied and trembling he devours the ground; he holds not back at the sound of the trumpet,	24 With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
25 but at each blast he cries, "Aha!" Even from afar he scents the battle, the roar of the chiefs and the shouting.	25 When the trumpet sounds, he says 'Aha!' He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
26 Is it by your discernment that the hawk soars, that he spreads his wings toward the south?	26 "Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and spreads his wings toward the south?
27 Does the eagle fly up at your command to build his nest aloft?	27 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high?
28 On the cliff he dwells and spends the night, on the spur of the cliff or the fortress.	28 On the rock he dwells and makes his home in the fastness of the rocky crag.
29 From thence he watches for his prey; his eyes behold it afar off.	29 Thence he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it afar off.
30 His young ones greedily drink blood; where the slain are, there is he.	30 His young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is he."