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| Job 39:1 | "Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns? | Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young? |
| Job 39:2 | Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth? | Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you? |
| Job 39:3 | They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, They end their labor pains. | They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body. |
| Job 39:4 | Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go forth, and don't return again. | Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again. |
| Job 39:5 | "Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey, | Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast? |
| Job 39:6 | Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place? | To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place. |
| Job 39:7 | He scorns the tumult of the city, Neither hears he the shouting of the driver. | He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears; |
| Job 39:8 | The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing. | He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing. |
| Job 39:9 | "Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough? | Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store? |
| Job 39:10 | Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you? | Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you? |
| Job 39:11 | Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor? | Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care? |
| Job 39:12 | Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, And gather the grain of your threshing floor? | Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor? |
| Job 39:13 | "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; But are they the pinions and plumage of love? | Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers, |
| Job 39:14 | For she leaves her eggs on the earth, Warms them in the dust, | That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust, |
| Job 39:15 | And forgets that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild animal may trample them. | Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field? |
| Job 39:16 | She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear, | She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear. |
| Job 39:17 | Because God has deprived her of wisdom, Neither has he imparted to her understanding. | For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge. |
| Job 39:18 | When she lifts up herself on high, She scorns the horse and his rider. | When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him. |
| Job 39:19 | "Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane? | Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power? |
| Job 39:20 | Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome. | Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath? |
| Job 39:21 | He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength: He goes out to meet the armed men. | He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear. |
| Job 39:22 | He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed; Neither does he turn back from the sword. | In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword. |
| Job 39:23 | The quiver rattles against him, The flashing spear and the javelin. | The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow. |
| Job 39:24 | He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, Neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet. | Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn; |
| Job 39:25 | As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, 'Aha!' He smells the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the shouting. | When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries. |
| Job 39:26 | "Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, And stretches her wings toward the south? | Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south? |
| Job 39:27 | Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, And makes his nest on high? | Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high? |
| Job 39:28 | On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, On the point of the cliff, and the stronghold. | On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place. |
| Job 39:29 | From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off. | From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off. |
| Job 39:30 | His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is." | His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen. |
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