Job 39

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¹ Do you know at what time the wild goats have given birth among the rocks, or do you observe the deer when they go into labor?	¹ Do you know about the birth of the mountain goats, watch for the birth pangs of the hinds,
² Have you numbered the months since their conception, and do you know at what time they gave birth?	² Number the months that they must fulfill, and fix the time of their bringing forth?
³ They bend themselves for their offspring, and they give birth, and they emit roars.	³ They crouch down and bear their young; they deliver their progeny in the desert.
⁴ Their young are weaned and go out to feed; they depart and do not return to them.	⁴ When their offspring thrive and grow, they leave and do not return.
⁵ Who has set the wild ass free, and who has released his bonds?	⁵ Who has given the wild ass his freedom, and who has loosed him from bonds?
⁶ I have given a house in solitude to him, and his tabernacle is in the salted land.	⁶ I have made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
⁷ He despises the crowded city; he does not pay attention to the bellow of the tax collector.	⁷ He scoffs at the uproar of the city, and hears no shouts of a driver.
⁸ He looks around the mountains of his pasture, and he searches everywhere for green plants.	⁸ He ranges the mountains for pasture, and seeks out every patch of green.
⁹ Will the rhinoceros be willing to serve you, and will he remain in your stall?	⁹ Will the wild ox consent to serve you, and to pass the nights by your manger?
¹⁰ Can you detain the rhinoceros with your harness to plough for you, and will he loosen the soil of the furrows behind you?	¹⁰ Will a rope bind him in the furrow, and will he harrow the valleys after you?
¹¹ Will you put your faith in his great strength, and delegate your labors to him?	¹¹ Will you trust him for his great strength and leave to him the fruits of your toil?
¹² Will you trust him to return to you the seed, and to gather it on your drying floor?	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 leaves eggs behind in the earth, will you perhaps warm them in the dust?	¹⁴ When she leaves her eggs on the ground and deposits them in the sand,
¹⁵ She forgets that feet may trample them, or that the beasts of the field may shatter them.	¹⁵ Unmindful that a foot may crush them, that the wild beasts may trample them,
¹⁶ She is hardened against her young, as if they were not hers; she has labored in vain, with no fear compelling her.	¹⁶ She cruelly disowns her young and ruthlessly makes nought of her brood;
¹⁷ For God has deprived her of wisdom; neither has he given her understanding.	¹⁷ For God has withheld wisdom from her and has given her no share in understanding.
¹⁸ Yet, when the time is right, she raises her wings on high; she ridicules the horse and his rider.	¹⁸ Yet in her swiftness of foot she makes sport of the horse and his rider.
¹⁹ Will you supply strength to the horse, or envelope his throat with neighing?	¹⁹ Do you give the horse his strength, and endow his neck with splendor?
²⁰ Will you alarm him as the locusts do? His panic is revealed by the display of his nostrils.	²⁰ Do you make the steed to quiver while his thunderous snorting spreads terror?
²¹ He digs at the earth with his hoof; he jumps around boldly; he advances to meet armed men.	²¹ He jubilantly paws the plain and rushes in his might against the weapons.
²² He despises fear; he does not turn away from the sword.	²² He laughs at fear and cannot be deterred; he turns not back from the sword.
²³ Above him, the quiver rattles, the spear and the shield shake.	²³ Around him rattles the quiver, flashes the spear and the javelin.
²⁴ Seething and raging, he drinks up the earth; neither does he pause when the blast of the trumpet sounds.	²⁴ Frenzied and trembling he devours the ground; he holds not back at the sound of the trumpet,
²⁵ When he hears the bugle, he says, “Ha!” He smells the battle from a distance, the exhortation of the officers, and the battle cry of the soldiers.	²⁵ but at each blast he cries, "Aha!" Even from afar he scents the battle, the roar of the chiefs and the shouting.
²⁶ Does the hawk grow feathers by means of your wisdom, spreading her wings towards the south?	²⁶ Is it by your discernment that the hawk soars, that he spreads his wings toward the south?
²⁷ Will the eagle lift herself up at your command and make her nest in steep places?	²⁷ Does the eagle fly up at your command to build his nest aloft?
²⁸ She dwells among the rocks, and she lingers among broken boulders and inaccessible cliffs.	²⁸ On the cliff he dwells and spends the night, on the spur of the cliff or the fortress.
²⁹ From there, she looks for food, and her eyes catch sight of it from far away.	²⁹ From thence he watches for his prey; his eyes behold it afar off.
³⁰ Her young will drink blood, and wherever the carcass will be, she is there immediately.	³⁰ His young ones greedily drink blood; where the slain are, there is he.
³¹ And the Lord continued, and he said to Job:
³² Will he who contends with God be so easily silenced? Certainly, he who argues with God must also respond to him.
³³ Then Job answered the Lord, saying:
³⁴ What could I possibly answer, since I have been speaking thoughtlessly? I will place my hand over my mouth.
³⁵ One thing I have spoken, which I wish I had not said; and another, to which I will add no more.

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