International Standard Version

English Standard Version

1"Do you know when the mountain goat gives birth? Do you watch the doe as it calves its young?

1“Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does?

2Can you count the months of their gestation? Do you know the time when they give birth,

2Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth,

3when they crouch down to give birth to their offspring, and let go of their birth pangs?

3when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young?

4Their young are strong; they grow up in the open field; then they go off and don't return to them."

4Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them.

5"Who sets the wild donkey free? Who loosens the bonds of the wild donkey

5“Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,

6to whom I've given the Arabah for a home; the salt plain for his dwelling place?

6to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place?

7He despises city noises; he ignores the shouts of the driver.

7He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver.

8He ranges the mountains that are his pasture to search for anything green.

8He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

9Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he sleep at night near your feeding trough?

9“Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your manger?

10Can you bind the ox to plow a furrow with a rope? Will he harrow after you in the valley?

10Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?

11Will you trust him because of his great strength and entrust your labor to him?

11Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor?

12Will you trust him that he'll bring in your grain, and gather it to your threshing floor?"

12Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?

13"The wings of the ostrich flap joyously, but aren't its pinions and feathers like the stork?

13“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love?

14She abandons her eggs on the ground and lets them be warmed in the sand,

14For she leaves her eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground,

15but she forgets that a foot might crush them or any wild animal might trample them.

15forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them.

16She mistreats her young as though they're not hers, and she has no fear that her labor may be in vain,

16She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,

17because God didn't grant her wisdom and never gave her understanding.

17because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding.

18And yet when she gets ready to run, she laughs at the horse and its rider."

18When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider.

19Do you instill the horse with strength? Do you clothe its neck with a mane?

19“Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane?

20Can you make him leap like the locust, and make the splendor of his snorting terrifying?

20Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrifying.

21He paws the ground in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he goes out to face weapons.

21He paws in the valley and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons.

22He scoffs at fear and is never scared; he never retreats from a sword.

22He laughs at fear and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword.

23A quiver of arrows rattles against his side, along with a flashing spear and a lance.

23Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear, and the javelin.

24Leaping in his excitement, he takes in the ground; he cannot stand still when the trumpets sound!

24With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

25When the trumpet blasts he'll neigh, 'Aha! Aha!' From a distance he can sense war, the war cry of generals, and their shouting."

25When the trumpet sounds, he says ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

26"Is it by your understanding that the hawk flies, spreading its wings toward the south?

26“Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south?

27Does the eagle soar high at your command and build its nest on the highest crags?

27Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high?

28He dwells on the crags where he makes his home, there on the rocky crag is his stronghold.

28On the rock he dwells and makes his home, on the rocky crag and stronghold.

29From there he searches for prey, and his eyes recognize it from a distance.

29From there he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it from far away.

30His young ones feast on blood; he'll be found wherever there's a carcass."

30His young ones suck up blood, and where the slain are, there is he.”

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