Job 39 — ILT
39Verse 1Knowest thou the time when the chamois of the rock bring forth? or markest thou when the hinds do calve?Verse 2Numberest thou the months of gestation which they complete and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?Verse 3They bend themselves: they drop their young ones; throw off their pains.Verse 4Their little ones become strong; they grow up in the open field; they go forth, and return not unto them.Verse 5Who sent out the wild ass free? or who loosened the bonds of the forest-ass?Verse 6To whom I assigned the wilderness as his house, and the salty land as his dwellings.Verse 7He laugheth at the noise of a town, and the shoutings of the driver he heareth not.Verse 8What he espieth on the mountains is his pasture, and after every green thing doth he search.Verse 9Will the forest-ox be willing to serve thee, or will he stay over night at thy crib?Verse 10Canst thou bind the forest-ox with a rope [to labor] in the furrow? or will he harrow valleys, following after thee?Verse 11Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou leave to him thy labor?Verse 12Wilt thou confide in him, that he should bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor?—Verse 13The wing of the ostrich moveth joyfully: hath she the pinions and plumage of the careful stork?Verse 14[No,] for she intrusteth her eggs to the earth, and letteth them be hatched out on the dust:Verse 15And she forgetteth that a foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may stamp them down.Verse 16He hath made her callous against her young, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain, [but she feeleth] no dread;Verse 17Because God hath denied her wisdom, and he hath not imparted to her understanding.Verse 18At the time she raiseth herself up on high, she laugheth at the horse and his rider.Verse 19Dost thou give the horse strength? dost thou clothe his neck with the rolling mane?Verse 20Canst thou make him jump like a locust? his majestic snort is terrible.Verse 21Men spy about in the valley, and he rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth forth to meet the armed array.Verse 22He laugheth at fear, and is not dismayed; and turneth not back from before the sword.Verse 23Over him rattle the quiver, the glittering spear and the lance.Verse 24With impatient noise and rage he holloweth [with his hoof] the ground, and keepeth not quiet when the cornet's voice [is heard].Verse 25Midst the sound of the cornet he uttereth his joyful neigh; and from afar he perceiveth the battle, the loud call of the captains, and the battle-cry.—Verse 26Is it through thy understanding that the hawk flieth along, and spreadeth out his wings toward the south?Verse 27Or is it by your order that the eagle doth mount upward, and buildeth high up his nest?Verse 28On a rock he dwelleth, and spendeth his nights, on a rocky crag and mountain fastness.Verse 29From there he espieth his food, from afar can his eyes behold.Verse 30His young ones, also, sip up blood: and where the slain be, there is he.