Job 39
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?
1Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth among the rocks, or hast thou observed the hinds when they fawn?
2Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth?
2Hast thou numbered the months of their conceiving, or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
3They crouch down and bring forth their young; they deliver their newborn.
3They bow themselves to bring forth young, and they cast them, and send forth roarings.
4Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return.
4Their young are weaned and go to feed: they go forth, and return not to them.
5Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?
5Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bonds?
6I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
6To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land.
7He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.
7He scorneth the multitude of the city, he heareth not the cry of the driver.
8He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.
8He looketh round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh for every green thing.
9Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?
9Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at thy crib?
10Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?
10Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with thy thong to plough, or will he break the clods of the valleys after thee?
11Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?
11Wilt thou have confidence in his great strength, and leave thy labours to him?
12Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
12Wilt thou trust him that he will render thee the seed, and gather it into thy barnfloor?
13The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.
13The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.
14For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.
14When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust.
15She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.
15She forgetteth that the foot may tread upon them, or that the beasts of the field may break them.
16She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.
16She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her.
17For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.
17For God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he given her understanding.
18Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.
18When time shall be, she setteth up her wings on high: she scorneth the horse and his rider.
19Do you give strength to the horse or adorn his neck with a mane?
19Wilt thou give strength to the horse, or clothe his neck with neighing?
20Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting?
20Wilt thou lift him up like the locusts? the glory of his nostrils is terror.
21He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he charges into battle.
21He breaketh up the earth with his hoof, he pranceth boldly, he goeth forward to meet armed men.
22He laughs at fear, frightened of nothing; he does not turn back from the sword.
22He despiseth fear, he turneth not his back to the sword,
23A quiver rattles at his side, along with a flashing spear and lance.
23Above him shall the quiver rattle, the spear and shield shall glitter.
24Trembling with excitement, he devours the distance; he cannot stand still when the ram’s horn sounds.
24Chasing and raging he swalloweth the ground, neither doth he make account when the noise of the trumpet soundeth.
25At the blast of the horn, he snorts with fervor. He catches the scent of battle from afar— the shouts of captains and the cry of war.
25When he heareth the trumpet he saith: Ha, ha: he smelleth the battle afar off, the encouraging of the captains, and the shouting of the army.
26Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south?
26Doth the hawk wax feathered by thy wisdom, spreading her wings to the south?
27Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?
27Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest in high places?
28He dwells on a cliff and lodges there; his stronghold is on a rocky crag.
28She abideth among the rocks, and dwelleth among cragged flints, and stony hills, where there is no access.
29From there he spies out food; his eyes see it from afar.
29From thence she looketh for the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
30His young ones feast on blood; and where the slain are, there he is.”
30Her young ones shall suck up blood: and wheresoever the carcass shall be, she is immediately there.
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31And the Lord went on, and said to Job:
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32Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely he that reproveth God, ought to answer him.
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33Then Job answered the Lord, and said:
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34What can I answer, who hath spoken inconsiderately? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
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35One thing I have spoken, which I wish I had not said: and another, to which I will add no more.
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