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1“Do you know the time when the wild mountain goats bear young? Or can you mark when the deer gives birth?

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

2Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they bear young?

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

3They bow down, They bring forth their young, They deliver their offspring.

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

4Their young ones are healthy, They grow strong with grain; They depart and do not return to them.

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

5“Who set the wild donkey free? Who loosed the bonds of the onager,

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

6Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwelling?

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

7He scorns the tumult of the city; He does not heed the shouts of the driver.

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

8The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searches after every green thing.

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

9“Will the wild ox be willing to serve you? Will he bed by your manger?

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

10Can you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes? Or will he plow the valleys behind you?

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

11Will you trust him because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to him?

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

12Will you trust him to bring home your grain, And gather it to your threshing floor?

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

13“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, But are her wings and pinions like the kindly stork’s?

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

14For she leaves her eggs on the ground, And warms them in the dust;

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

15She forgets that a foot may crush them, Or that a wild beast may break them.

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

16She treats her young harshly, as though they were not hers; Her labor is in vain, without concern,

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

17Because God deprived her of wisdom, And did not endow her with understanding.

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

18When she lifts herself on high, She scorns the horse and its rider.

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

19“Have you given the horse strength? Have you clothed his neck with thunder?

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

20Can you frighten him like a locust? His majestic snorting strikes terror.

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

21He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength; He gallops into the clash of arms.

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

22He mocks at fear, and is not frightened; Nor does he turn back from the sword.

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

23The quiver rattles against him, The glittering spear and javelin.

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

24He devours the distance with fierceness and rage; Nor does he come to a halt because the trumpet has sounded.

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

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

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

26“Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, And spread its wings toward the south?

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

27Does the eagle mount up at your command, And make its nest on high?

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

28On the rock it dwells and resides, On the crag of the rock and the stronghold.

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

29From there it spies out the prey; Its eyes observe from afar.

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

30Its young ones suck up blood; And where the slain are, there it is.”

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

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