KJ3 Literal Translation
Job 39
1 Of the wild goats and hinds. 5 Of the wild ass. 9 The wild ox. 13 The peacock.stork and ostrich. 19 The horse. 26 The hawk. 27 The eagle.
1¶ Do you know the time of the bearing of the goats of the rock? Do you observe the travailing of deer?
2Can you tell the months they fulfill; or do you know the time for their bearing,
3when they crouch and bring forth; they send out their pangs?
4Their sons become strong; they multiply with grain; they go forth and do not return to them.
5Who has sent out the wild ass free, or who has loosened the bands of the wild ass?
6To whom I have assigned the desert for his home, and the salt land for his dwellings?
7He laughs at the roar of the city; he does not hear the driver's shouts;
8he seeks out mountains for his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
9Will the wild ox consent to be your servant, or spend the night by your feed-trough?
10Can you tie the wild ox in the furrow with his rope? Or will he harrow the valleys for you?
11Will you trust him because his strength is great; or will you leave your labor to him?
12Or will you have faith in him, that he will return your seed, and gather it to your threshing-floor?
13¶ The wing of the ostriches flap joyously, though not like the stork's pinions or feathers.
14For she leaves her eggs to the earth, and lets them warm on the dust;
15and forgets that a foot may crush it, or the beast of the field may trample it;
16she treats her young roughly, as if not hers; for her labor is vanity without fear;
17because God has made her forget wisdom; and He has not given to her a share in understanding.
18At the time she lifts up on high, she laughs at the horse and its rider.
19¶ Have you given the horse its strength: have you clothed its neck with a mane?
20Can you make him leap like a locust? The majesty of his snorting is terrifying.
21He paws in the valley and he rejoices in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons;
22he mocks at fear and is not terrified; and he does not turn back from the sword.
23The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.
24He swallows the ground with quivering and trembling, and he does not stand still for the sound of the rams' horn.
25When the rams' horn sounds, he says, Aha! And he smells the battle from a distance, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
26¶ Does the hawk soar from your understanding? Will he spread his wings toward the south?
27Or does the eagle mount up at your mouth, and make his nest on high?
28He lives and stays on the rock, on the crag of the rock and the stronghold.
29From there he seeks food; his eyes see afar off.
30And his young brood sucks up blood; and where the pierced ones are, there he is.
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