The Bible in Basic English BBE
Orthodox Jewish Bible OJB
1 Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?
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9 Dost thou have da’as of the et (time) when the mountain goats give birth, or art thou shomer to watch when the doe bears her fawn?
2 Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?
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Canst thou number the months that they fulfil, or dost thou have da’as of the et (time) when they give birth?
3 They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.
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They crouch down, they bring forth their yeledim, their chavalim (birth pains) are cast off in riddance.
4 Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.
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Their banim gain strength, they grow up in the bar (open, wild); they go forth, and return not unto them.
5 Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?
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Who hath sent out the pere (wild donkey) free, or who hath untied the ropes of the arod (wild donkey, onager),
6 To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.
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Whose bais I have made the aravah, and the barren land his mishkenot (dwellings)?
7 He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;
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He laughs at the tumult of the kiryah (city), neither regardeth he the shouts of the driver.
8 He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.
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The range of the harim is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
9 Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?
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Will the wild ox be willing to be thy eved, or stay the night by thy evus (animal feeding trough)?
10 Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?
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Canst thou bind the wild ox to the furrow with a rope, or will it behind thee till the amakim (valleys)?
11 Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?
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Wilt thou depend on him, because his ko’ach is great, or wilt thou hand over thy heavy work to him?
12 Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?
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Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring in thy zera (grain), and gather it into thy goren (threshing floor)?
13 Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,
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Joyfully flapping are the wings of the ostrich, but are her wings and feathers like the khasidah (stork)?
14 That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,
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For the ostrich layeth her betzim (eggs) la’aretz (on the ground), and warmeth them in the sand,
15 Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?
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And forgetteth that the regel may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
16 She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.
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She treats harshly her banim, as though they were not hers; though her labor should be in vain, yet she is without pachad (fear, care),
17 For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.
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Because Elo’ah hath deprived her of chochmah, neither hath he imparted to her binah.
18 When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.
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Yet at the et (time) she flaps her wings [to run], she laughs at the sus and his rider.
19 Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?
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Hast thou given the sus gevurah? Hast thou clothed his neck with a flowing mane?
20 Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?
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Canst thou make him leap like an arbeh (locust)? The hod (glory) of his snorting strikes terror.
21 He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.
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He paweth in the emek (valley), and rejoiceth in his koach; he chargeth into the fray.
22 In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.
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He laugheth at pachad, and nothing fears; neither turneth he back from the cherev.
23 The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow.
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The quiver rattleth at his side, the glittering spear and the kidon (scimitar, curved sword).
24 Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;
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He eats up the eretz with fierceness and rogez (rage); neither standeth he still at the sound of the shofar.
25 When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries.
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As often as the shofar, he snorts Aha! and he smelleth the milchamah afar off, the shout of the sarim, and the teru’ah (battle cry).
26 Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?
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Doth the hawk fly by thy binah, and stretch her wings toward the south?
27 Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?
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Doth the nesher (eagle) mount up at thy command, and make her ken (nest) on high?
28 On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place.
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She dwelleth and abideth on the cliff, upon the crag of the rock, its metzudah (stronghold).
29 From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.
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From there she seeketh the okhel (food, prey), and her eyes behold it from afar off.
30 His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.
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Her young ones feast on dahm; and where the chalalim (slain ones) are, there it is.
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