1 \38:39\Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,
2 \38:40\When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?
3 \38:41\Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?
4 \39:1\Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?
5 \39:2\Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?
6 \39:3\They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.
7 \39:4\Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.
8 \39:5\Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?
9 \39:6\To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.
10 \39:7\He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;
11 \39:8\He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.
12 \39:9\Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?
13 \39:10\Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?
14 \39:11\Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?
15 \39:12\Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?
16 \39:13\Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,
17 \39:14\That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,
18 \39:15\Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?
19 \39:16\She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.
20 \39:17\For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.
21 \39:18\When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.
22 \39:19\Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?
23 \39:20\Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?
24 \39:21\He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.
25 \39:22\In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.
26 \39:23\The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow.
27 \39:24\Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;
28 \39:25\When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries.
29 \39:26\Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?
30 \39:27\Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?
31 \39:28\On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place.
32 \39:29\From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.
33 \39:30\His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.
34 \40:1\...
35 \40:2\Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer.
36 \40:3\And Job said in answer to the Lord,
37 \40:4\Truly, I am of no value; what answer may I give to you? I will put my hand on my mouth.
38 \40:5\I have said once, and even twice, what was in my mind, but I will not do so again.
1 "山岩间的野山羊的产期你能晓得吗？母鹿下犊之期你能察出吗？
2 它们怀胎的月数你能计算吗？它们生产的日期你能晓得吗？
3 它们屈身， 把子产下， 就除掉生产的疼痛。
4 幼雏渐渐健壮， 在荒野长大， 它们一离群出去， 就不再返回。
5 谁放野驴自由出去呢？谁解开快驴的绳索呢？
6 我使原野作它的家， 使咸地作它的居所。
7 它嗤笑城里的喧哗， 不听赶野驴的呼喝声；
8 它探索群山作它的草场， 寻觅各样青绿的东西。
9 野牛怎肯作你的仆人， 或在你的槽旁过夜呢？
10 你怎能用套绳把野牛系在犁沟呢？它怎肯跟着你耙山谷之地呢？
11 你怎能因它的力大就倚赖它？怎能把你所作的交给它作呢？
12 怎能信任它能把你的粮食运回来； 又收聚你禾场上的谷粒呢？
13 鸵鸟的翅膀欣然鼓动， 但它的翎毛和羽毛哪有慈爱呢？
14 它把蛋都留在地上， 使它们在土里得温暖，
15 它却忘记了人的脚可以把蛋踩碎， 野地的走兽会把蛋践踏。
16 它苛待幼雏， 看它们好像不是自己生的， 就算它的劳苦白费了， 也漠不关心，
17 因为 神使它忘记了智慧， 也没有把聪明分给它。
18 它挺身鼓翼奔跑的时候， 就讥笑马和骑马的人。
19 马的大力是你所赐的吗？它颈上的鬃毛是你披上的吗？
20 是你使它跳跃像蝗虫吗？它喷气之威使人惊惶。
21 它在谷中扒地， 以己力为乐， 它出去迎战手持武器的人。
22 它讥笑可怕的事， 并不惊慌， 也不在刀剑的面前退缩。
23 箭袋、闪烁的矛与枪， 都在它的身上铮铮有声。
24 它震抖激动， 驰骋大地， 一听见角声， 就不能站定。
25 角声一响， 它就说‘呵哈’， 它从远处闻到战争的气味， 又听见军长的雷声和战争的吶喊。
26 鹰鸟飞翔， 展翅南飞， 是因着你的聪明吗？
27 大鹰上腾， 在高处筑巢， 是听你的吩咐吗？
28 它住在山岩之上， 栖息在岩崖与坚固所在之上，
29 从那里窥看猎物， 它们的眼睛可以从远处观望。
30 它的幼雏也都吮血； 被杀的人在哪里， 鹰也在哪里。"