39 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 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil, or dost thou have da’as of the et (time) when they give birth?

³ They crouch down, they bring forth their yeledim, their chavalim (birth pains) are cast off in riddance.

⁴ Their banim gain strength, they grow up in the bar (open, wild); they go forth, and return not unto them.

⁵ Who hath sent out the pere (wild donkey) free, or who hath untied the ropes of the arod (wild donkey, onager),

⁶ Whose bais I have made the aravah, and the barren land his mishkenot (dwellings)?

⁷ He laughs at the tumult of the kiryah (city), neither regardeth he the shouts of the driver.

⁸ The range of the harim is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

⁹ Will the wild ox be willing to be thy eved, or stay the night by thy evus (animal feeding trough)?

¹⁰ Canst thou bind the wild ox to the furrow with a rope, or will it behind thee till the amakim (valleys)?

¹¹ Wilt thou depend on him, because his ko’ach is great, or wilt thou hand over thy heavy work to him?

¹² Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring in thy zera (grain), and gather it into thy goren (threshing floor)?

¹³ Joyfully flapping are the wings of the ostrich, but are her wings and feathers like the khasidah (stork)?

¹⁴ For the ostrich layeth her betzim (eggs) la’aretz (on the ground), and warmeth them in the sand,

¹⁵ And forgetteth that the regel may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.

¹⁶ 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 Because Elo’ah hath deprived her of chochmah, neither hath he imparted to her binah.

¹⁸ Yet at the et (time) she flaps her wings [to run], she laughs at the sus and his rider.

¹⁹ Hast thou given the sus gevurah? Hast thou clothed his neck with a flowing mane?

²⁰ Canst thou make him leap like an arbeh (locust)? The hod (glory) of his snorting strikes terror.

²¹ He paweth in the emek (valley), and rejoiceth in his koach; he chargeth into the fray.

²² He laugheth at pachad, and nothing fears; neither turneth he back from the cherev.

²³ The quiver rattleth at his side, the glittering spear and the kidon (scimitar, curved sword).

²⁴ He eats up the eretz with fierceness and rogez (rage); neither standeth he still at the sound of the shofar.

²⁵ 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 Doth the hawk fly by thy binah, and stretch her wings toward the south?

²⁷ Doth the nesher (eagle) mount up at thy command, and make her ken (nest) on high?

²⁸ She dwelleth and abideth on the cliff, upon the crag of the rock, its metzudah (stronghold).

²⁹ From there she seeketh the okhel (food, prey), and her eyes behold it from afar off.

³⁰ Her young ones feast on dahm; and where the chalalim (slain ones) are, there it is.