Job 39 — TOJB

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