Berean Study Bible | English Standard Version |
1“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn? | 1“Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does? |
2Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth? | 2Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth, |
3They crouch down and bring forth their young; they deliver their newborn. | 3when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young? |
4Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return. | 4Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them. |
5Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness? | 5“Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey, |
6I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling. | 6to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place? |
7He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver. | 7He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver. |
8He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing. | 8He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing. |
9Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night? | 9“Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your manger? |
10Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you? | 10Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you? |
11Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him? | 11Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor? |
12Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor? | 12Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain and gather it to your threshing floor? |
13The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork. | 13“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love? |
14For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand. | 14For she leaves her eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground, |
15She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them. | 15forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them. |
16She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain. | 16She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear, |
17For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding. | 17because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding. |
18Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider. | 18When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider. |
19Do you give strength to the horse or adorn his neck with a mane? | 19“Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane? |
20Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting? | 20Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrifying. |
21He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he charges into battle. | 21He paws in the valley and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons. |
22He laughs at fear, frightened of nothing; he does not turn back from the sword. | 22He laughs at fear and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword. |
23A quiver rattles at his side, along with a flashing spear and lance. | 23Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear, and the javelin. |
24Trembling with excitement, he devours the distance; he cannot stand still when the ram’s horn sounds. | 24With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet. |
25At the blast of the horn, he snorts with fervor. He catches the scent of battle from afar—the shouts of captains and the cry of war. | 25When the trumpet sounds, he says ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. |
26Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south? | 26“Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south? |
27Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high? | 27Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high? |
28He dwells on a cliff and lodges there; his stronghold is on a rocky crag. | 28On the rock he dwells and makes his home, on the rocky crag and stronghold. |
29From there he spies out food; his eyes see it from afar. | 29From there he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it from far away. |
30His young ones feast on blood; and where the slain are, there he is.” | 30His young ones suck up blood, and where the slain are, there is he.” |
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