Job 39

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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."

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