Job 39

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you ever watched deer in labour?	1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth among the rocks, or hast thou observed the hinds when they fawn?
2 Have you ever counted the months that they carry their young? Do you know when they give birth?	2 Hast thou numbered the months of their conceiving, or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
3 They crouch to drop their young, they get rid of their burdens	3 They bow themselves to bring forth young, and they cast them, and send forth roarings.
4 and the calves, having grown big and strong, go off into the desert and never come back to them.	4 Their young are weaned and go to feed : they go forth, and return not to them.
5 Who has given the wild donkey his freedom, who has undone the harness of the brayer?	5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bonds?
6 I have given him the wastelands as his home, the salt plain as his habitat.	6 To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land.
7 He scorns the turmoil of the town, obeys no donkey-man's shouts.	7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, he heareth not the cry of the driver.
8 The mountains are the pastures that he ranges in quest of anything green.	8 He looketh round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh for every green thing.
9 Is the wild ox willing to serve you or spend a night beside your manger?	9 Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at thy crib?
10 If you tie a rope round his neck wil he harrow the furrows for you?	10 Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with thy thong to plough, or will he break the clods of the valleys after thee?
11 Can you rely on his massive strength and leave him to do your heavy work?	11 Wilt thou have confidence in his great strength, and leave thy labours to him?
12 Can you depend on him to come home and pile your grain on your threshing-floor?	12 Wilt thou trust him that he will render thee the seed, and gather it into thy barnfloor?
13 Can the wing of the ostrich be compared with the plumage of stork or falcon?	13 The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.
14 She leaves her eggs on the ground with only earth to warm them;	14 When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust.
15 forgetting that a foot may tread on them or a wild animal crush them.	15 She forgetteth that the foot may tread upon them, or that the beasts of the field may break them.
16 Cruel to her chicks as if they were not hers, little she cares if her labour goes for nothing.	16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her.
17 God, you see, has deprived her of wisdom and given her no share of intel igence.	17 For God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he given her understanding.
18 Yet, if she bestirs herself to use her height, she can make fools of horse and rider too.	18 When time shall be, she setteth up her wings on high : she scorneth the horse and his rider.
19 Are you the one who makes the horse so brave and covers his neck with flowing mane?	19 Wilt thou give strength to the horse, or clothe his neck with neighing?
20 Do you make him leap like a grasshopper? His haughty neighing inspires terror.	20 Wilt thou lift him up like the locusts? the glory of his nostrils is terror.
21 Exultantly he paws the soil of the val ey, and charges the battle-line in all his strength.	21 He breaketh up the earth with his hoof, he pranceth boldly, he goeth forward to meet armed men.
22 He laughs at fear; he is afraid of nothing, he recoils before no sword.	22 He despiseth fear, he turneth not his back to the sword,
23 On his back the quiver rattles, the flashing spear and javelin.	23 Above him shall the quiver rattle, the spear and shield shall glitter.
24 Trembling with impatience, he eats up the miles; when the trumpet sounds, there is no holding him.	24 Chasing and raging he swalloweth the ground, neither doth he make account when the noise of the trumpet soundeth.
25 At each trumpet blast he neighs exultantly. He scents the battle from afar, the thundering of thecommanders and the war cry.	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.
26 Is it your wisdom that sets the hawk flying when he spreads his wings to travel south?	26 Doth the hawk wax feathered by thy wisdom, spreading her wings to the south?
27 Does the eagle soar at your command to make her eyrie in the heights?	27 Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest in high places?
28 She spends her nights among the crags with a needle of rock as her fortress,	28 She abideth among the rocks, and dwelleth among cragged flints, and stony hills, where there is no access.
29 from which she watches for prey, fixing it with her far-ranging eye.	29 From thence she looketh for the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
30 Even her young drink blood; where anyone has been killed, she is there.	30 Her young ones shall suck up blood : and wheresoever the carcass shall be, she is immediately there.
	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.