New King James Version

New Living Translation

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 wild goats give birth? Have you watched as deer are born in the wild?

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

2Do you know how many months they carry their young? Are you aware of the time of their delivery?

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

3They crouch down to give birth to their young and deliver their offspring.

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

4Their young grow up in the open fields, then leave home and never return.

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

5“Who gives the wild donkey its freedom? Who untied its ropes?

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

6I have placed it in the wilderness; its home is the wasteland.

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

7It hates the noise of the city and has no driver to shout at it.

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

8The mountains are its pastureland, where it searches for every blade of grass.

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

9“Will the wild ox consent to being tamed? Will it spend the night in your stall?

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

10Can you hitch a wild ox to a plow? Will it plow a field for you?

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

11Given its strength, can you trust it? Can you leave and trust the ox to do your work?

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

12Can you rely on it to bring home your grain and deliver 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 ostrich flaps her wings grandly, but they are no match for the feathers of the stork.

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

14She lays her eggs on top of the earth, letting them be warmed in the dust.

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

15She doesn’t worry that a foot might crush them or a wild animal might destroy them.

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

16She is harsh toward her young, as if they were not her own. She doesn’t care if they die.

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

17For God has deprived her of wisdom. He has given her no understanding.

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

18But whenever she jumps up to run, she passes the swiftest horse with its rider.

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

19“Have you given the horse its strength or clothed its neck with a flowing mane?

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

20Did you give it the ability to leap like a locust? Its majestic snorting is terrifying!

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

21It paws the earth and rejoices in its strength when it charges out to battle.

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

22It laughs at fear and is unafraid. It does not run from the sword.

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

23The arrows rattle against it, and the spear and javelin flash.

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

24It paws the ground fiercely and rushes forward into battle when the ram’s horn blows.

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

25It snorts at the sound of the horn. It senses the battle in the distance. It quivers at the captain’s commands and the noise of battle.

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

26“Is it your wisdom that makes the hawk soar and spread its wings toward the south?

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

27Is it at your command that the eagle rises to the heights to make its nest?

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

28It lives on the cliffs, making its home on a distant, rocky crag.

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

29From there it hunts its prey, keeping watch with piercing eyes.

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

30Its young gulp down blood. Where there’s a carcass, there you’ll find it.”

The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.