Young's Literal Translation YLT
Holman Christian Standard Bible CSB
1 Hast thou known the time of The bearing of the wild goats of the rock? The bringing forth of hinds thou dost mark!
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Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the deer in labor?
2 Thou dost number the months they fulfil? And thou hast known the time of their bringing forth!
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Can you count the months they are pregnant so you can know the time they give birth?
3 They bow down, Their young ones they bring forth safely, Their pangs they cast forth.
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They crouch down to give birth to their young; they deliver their newborn.
4 Safe are their young ones, They grow up in the field, they have gone out, And have not returned to them.
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Their offspring are healthy and grow up in the open field. They leave and do not return.
5 Who hath sent forth the wild ass free? Yea, the bands of the wild ass who opened?
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Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from its harness?
6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,
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I made the wilderness its home, and the salty wasteland its dwelling.
7 He doth laugh at the multitude of a city, The cries of an exactor he heareth not.
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It scoffs at the noise of the village and never hears the shouts of a driver.
8 The range of mountains [is] his pasture, And after every green thing he seeketh.
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It roams the mountains for its pastureland, searching for anything green.
9 Is a Reem willing to serve thee? Doth he lodge by thy crib?
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Would the wild ox be willing to serve you? Would it spend the night by your feeding trough?
10 Dost thou bind a Reem in a furrow [with] his thick band? Doth he harrow valleys after thee?
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Can you hold the wild ox by its harness to the furrow? Will it plow the valleys behind you?
11 Dost thou trust in him because great [is] his power? And dost thou leave unto him thy labour?
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Can you depend on it because of its strength? Would you leave it to do your hard work?
12 Dost thou trust in him That he doth bring back thy seed? And [to] thy threshing-floor doth gather [it]?
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Can you trust the wild ox to harvest your grain and bring [it] to your threshing floor?
13 The wing of the rattling ones exulteth, Whether the pinion of the ostrich or hawk.
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The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but are her feathers and plumage like the stork's?
14 For she leaveth on the earth her eggs, And on the dust she doth warm them,
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She abandons her eggs on the ground and lets them be warmed in the sand.
15 And she forgetteth that a foot may press it, And a beast of the field tread it down.
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She forgets that a foot may crush them or that some wild animal may trample them.
16 Her young ones it hath hardened without her, In vain [is] her labour without fear.
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She treats her young harshly, as if [they] were not her own, with no fear that her labor may have been in vain.
17 For God hath caused her to forget wisdom, And He hath not given a portion To her in understanding:
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For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.
18 At the time on high she lifteth herself up, She laugheth at the horse and at his rider.
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When she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.
19 Dost thou give to the horse might? Dost thou clothe his neck [with] a mane?
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Do you give strength to the horse? Do you adorn his neck with a mane?
20 Dost thou cause him to rush as a locust? The majesty of his snorting [is] terrible.
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Do you make him leap like a locust? His proud snorting [fills one with] terror.
21 They dig in a valley, and he rejoiceth in power, He goeth forth to meet the armour.
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He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength; He charges into battle.
22 He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted, And he turneth not back from the face of the sword.
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He laughs at fear, since he is afraid of nothing; he does not run from the sword.
23 Against him rattle doth quiver, The flame of a spear, and a halbert.
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A quiver rattles at his side, along with a flashing spear and a lance.
24 With trembling and rage he swalloweth the ground, And remaineth not stedfast Because of the sound of a trumpet.
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He charges ahead with trembling rage; he cannot stand still at the trumpet's sound.
25 Among the trumpets he saith, Aha, And from afar he doth smell battle, Roaring of princes and shouting.
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When the trumpet blasts, he snorts defiantly. He smells the battle from a distance; he hears the officers' shouts and the battle cry.
26 By thine understanding flieth a hawk? Spreadeth he his wings to the south?
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Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread its wings to the south?
27 At thy command goeth an eagle up high? Or lifteth he up his nest?
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Does the eagle soar at your command and make its nest on high?
28 A rock he doth inhabit, Yea, he lodgeth on the tooth of a rock, and fortress.
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It lives on a cliff where it spends the night; its stronghold is on a rocky crag.
29 From thence he hath sought food, To a far off place his eyes look attentively,
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From there it searches for prey; its eyes penetrate the distance.
30 And his brood gulph up blood, And where the pierced [are] -- there [is] he!
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Its brood gulps down blood, and wherever corpses lie, it is there.
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