39 “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?
    Do you watch ·when the deer gives birth to her fawn [^Lthe birth pangs of the deer]?
² Do you count the months until they ·give birth [are fulfilled]
    and know the right time for them to give birth?
³ They lie down, their young are born,
    and ·then the pain of giving birth is over [^Ldeliver their fetuses].
⁴ Their young ones grow big and strong in the wild country.
    Then they leave their homes and do not return.

⁵ “Who let the ·wild donkey [or onager; ^Ca donkey-like animal also known as the Asian wild ass; Gen. 16:12] go free?
    Who untied ·its ropes [^Lthe Arabian onager from its bonds; ^Canother Hebrew word for a wild donkey]?
⁶ I am the one who gave ·the donkey [^Lit] the ·desert [steppe] as its home;
    I gave it the ·desert [^Lsalt] lands as a place to live.
⁷ ·The wild donkey [^LIt] ·laughs [scoffs] at the ·confusion [tumult; noise] in the city,
    and it does not hear the drivers shout.
⁸ It ·roams [scouts out] the ·hills [mountains] looking for pasture,
    looking for anything green to eat.

⁹ “Will the wild ox agree to serve you
    and stay by your ·feeding box [stable] at night?
¹⁰ Can you hold it to the ·plowed row [furrow] with a ·harness [rope]
    so it will ·plow [harrow] the valleys for you?
¹¹ Will you depend on the wild ox for its great strength
    and ·leave [hand over] your heavy work for it to do?
¹² Can you trust the ox to bring in your grain
    and gather it to your threshing floor?

¹³ “The wings of the ostrich flap happily,
    but ·they are not like the feathers of the stork [or its pinions lack plumage].
¹⁴ The ostrich lays its eggs on the ground
    and lets them warm in the ·sand [dust].
¹⁵ It ·does not stop to think [forgets] that a foot might step on them and crush them;
    ·it does not care that some animal [^Lor a wild animal] might ·walk on [trample] them.
¹⁶ The ostrich ·is cruel to [treats harshly] its young, as if they were not even its own.
    It does not care that its work is for nothing,
¹⁷ because God ·did not give the ostrich [or made her forget] wisdom;
    God did not give it a share of ·good sense [understanding].
¹⁸ But when ·the ostrich gets up to run, it is so fast
    that [or it flaps its wings aloft and] it laughs at the horse and its rider.

¹⁹ “Job, are you the one who gives the horse its strength
    or puts a flowing mane on its neck?
²⁰ Do you make the horse ·jump like a locust [or quiver like locust wings]?
    It scares people with its ·proud [splendid] snorting.
²¹ It paws ·wildly [or the dirt of the valley], enjoying its strength,
    and ·charges into battle [^Lgoes out to encounter the weapons].
²² It laughs at ·fear [or danger] and is afraid of nothing;
    it does not run away from the sword.
²³ The ·bag of arrows [quiver] rattles against the horse’s side,
    along with the flashing ·spears and swords [or javelins and spears].
²⁴ With ·great excitement [^Ltrembling and shaking], the horse ·races over [^Lswallows up] the ground;
    and it cannot stand still when it hears the ·trumpet [ram’s horn].
²⁵ When the ·trumpet [ram’s horn] blows, the horse snorts, ‘Aha!’
    It ·smells [senses] the battle from far away;
    ·it hears the shouts [^Lthe thunder] of commanders and the battle cry.

²⁶ “Is it through your ·wisdom [understanding] that the ·hawk [or falcon] ·flies [soars]
    and spreads its wings toward the south?
²⁷ Are you the one that commands the eagle to fly
    and build its nest so high?
²⁸ It lives on a high cliff and stays there at night;
    the ·rocky [sharp] peak is its ·protected place [fortress].
²⁹ From there it ·looks [scouts] for its food;
    its eyes can see it from far away.
³⁰ Its young ·eat [suck; gorge on] blood,
    and where ·there is something dead [the slain are], the eagle is there.”