Job 39
1Dost thou have da'as of the et (time) when the mountain goats give birth, 1 or art thou shomer to watch when the doe bears her fawn? 1
2Canst thou number the months that they fulfil, 1 or dost thou have da'as of the et (time) when they give birth? 1
3They crouch down, they bring forth their yeledim, 1 their chavalim (birth pains) are cast off in riddance. 1
4Their banim gain strength, they grow up in the bar (open, wild); 1 they go forth, and return not unto them. 1
5Who hath sent out the pere (wild donkey) free, 1 or who hath untied the ropes of the arod (wild donkey, onager), 1
6Whose bais I have made the aravah, 1 and the barren land his mishkenot (dwellings)? 1
7He laughs at the tumult of the kiryah (city), 1 neither regardeth he the shouts of the driver. 1
8The range of the harim is his pasture, 1 and he searcheth after every green thing. 1
9Will the wild ox be willing to be thy eved, 1 or stay the night by thy evus (animal feeding trough)? 1
10Canst thou bind the wild ox to the furrow with a rope, 1 or will it behind thee till the amakim (valleys)? 1
11Wilt thou depend on him, because his ko'ach is great, 1 or wilt thou hand over thy heavy work to him? 1
12Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring in thy zera (grain), 1 and gather it into thy goren (threshing floor)? 1
13Joyfully flapping are the wings of the ostrich, 1 but are her wings and feathers like the khasidah (stork)? 1
14For the ostrich layeth her betzim (eggs) la'aretz (on the ground), 1 and warmeth them in the sand, 1
15And forgetteth that the regel may crush them, 1 or that the wild beast may break them. 1
16She treats harshly her banim, as though they were not hers; 1 though her labor should be in vain, yet she is without pachad (fear, care), 1
17Because Elo'ah hath deprived her of chochmah, 1 neither hath he imparted to her binah. 1
18Yet at the et (time) she flaps her wings [to run], 1 she laughs at the sus and his rider. 1
19Hast thou given the sus gevurah? 1 Hast thou clothed his neck with a flowing mane? 1
20Canst thou make him leap like an arbeh (locust)? 1 The hod (glory) of his snorting strikes terror. 1
21He paweth in the emek (valley), and rejoiceth in his koach; 1 he chargeth into the fray. 1
22He laugheth at pachad, and nothing fears; 1 neither turneth he back from the cherev. 1
23The quiver rattleth at his side, 1 the glittering spear and the kidon (scimitar, curved sword). 1
24He eats up the eretz with fierceness and rogez (rage); 1 neither standeth he still at the sound of the shofar. 1
25As often as the shofar, he snorts Aha! 1 and he smelleth the milchamah afar off, 1 the shout of the sarim, and the teru'ah (battle cry). 1
26Doth the hawk fly by thy binah, 1 and stretch her wings toward the south? 1
27Doth the nesher (eagle) mount up at thy command, 1 and make her ken (nest) on high? 1
28She dwelleth and abideth on the cliff, 1 upon the crag of the rock, its metzudah (stronghold). 1
29From there she seeketh the okhel (food, prey), 1 and her eyes behold it from afar off. 1
30Her young ones feast on dahm; 1 and where the chalalim (slain ones) are, there it is.