Common English Bible CEB
New Revised Standard NRS
1 Do you know when mountain goats give birth; do you observe the birthing of does?
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"Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the deer?
2 Can you count the months of pregnancy; do you know when they give birth?
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Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth,
3 They crouch, split open for their young, send forth their offspring.
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when they crouch to give birth to their offspring, and are delivered of their young?
4 Their young are healthy; they grow up in the open country, leave and never return.
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Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth, and do not return to them.
5 Who freed the wild donkey, loosed the ropes of the onager
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"Who has let the wild ass go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,
6 to whom I gave the desert as home, his dwelling place in the salt flats?
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to which I have given the steppe for its home, the salt land for its dwelling place?
7 He laughs at the clamor of the town, doesn't hear the driver's shout,
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It scorns the tumult of the city; it does not hear the shouts of the driver.
8 searches the hills for food and seeks any green sprout.
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It ranges the mountains as its pasture, and it searches after every green thing.
9 Will the wild ox agree to be your slave, or will it spend the night in your crib?
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"Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will it spend the night at your crib?
10 Can you bind it with a rope to a plowed row; will it plow the valley behind you?
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Can you tie it in the furrow with ropes, or will it harrow the valleys after you?
11 Will you trust it because its strength is great so that you can leave your work to it?
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Will you depend on it because its strength is great, and will you hand over your labor to it?
12 Can you rely on it to bring back your grain to gather into your threshing floor?
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Do you have faith in it that it will return, and bring your grain to your threshing floor?
13 The ostrich's wings flap joyously, but her wings and plumage are like a stork.
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"The ostrich's wings flap wildly, though its pinions lack plumage.
14 She leaves her eggs on the earth, lets them warm in the dust,
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For it leaves its eggs to the earth, and lets them be warmed on the ground,
15 then forgets that a foot may crush them or a wild animal trample them.
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forgetting that a foot may crush them, and that a wild animal may trample them.
16 She treats her young harshly as if they were not hers, without worrying that her labor might be in vain;
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It deals cruelly with its young, as if they were not its own; though its labor should be in vain, yet it has no fear;
17 God didn't endow her with sense, didn't give her some good sense.
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because God has made it forget wisdom, and given it no share in understanding.
18 When she flaps her wings high, she laughs at horse and rider.
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When it spreads its plumes aloft, it laughs at the horse and its rider.
19 Did you give strength to the horse, clothe his neck with a mane,
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"Do you give the horse its might? Do you clothe its neck with mane?
20 cause him to leap like a locust, his majestic snorting, a fright?
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Do you make it leap like the locust? Its majestic snorting is terrible.
21 He paws in the valley, prances proudly, charges at battle weapons,
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It paws violently, exults mightily; it goes out to meet the weapons.
22 laughs at fear, unafraid. He doesn't turn away from the sword;
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It laughs at fear, and is not dismayed; it does not turn back from the sword.
23 a quiver of arrows flies by him, flashing spear and dagger.
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Upon it rattle the quiver, the flashing spear, and the javelin.
24 Excitedly, trembling, he swallows the ground; can't stand still at a trumpet's blast.
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With fierceness and rage it swallows the ground; it cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
25 At a trumpet's sound, he says, "Aha!" smells the battle from afar, hears officers' shouting and the battle cry.
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When the trumpet sounds, it says "Aha!' From a distance it smells the battle, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
26 Is it due to your understanding that the hawk flies, spreading its wings to the south?
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"Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and spreads its wings toward the south?
27 Or at your command does the eagle soar, the vulture build a nest on high?
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Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes its nest on high?
28 They dwell on an outcropping of rock, their fortress on rock's edge.
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It lives on the rock and makes its home in the fastness of the rocky crag.
29 From there they search for food; their eyes notice it from afar,
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From there it spies the prey; its eyes see it from far away.
30 and their young lap up blood; where carcasses lie, there they are.
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Its young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there it is."
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