Jó 39

1 "Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth?

Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

2 Can you count the months that they fulfill?

Or do you know the time when they give birth?

3 They bow themselves. They bear their young.

They end their labor pains.

4 Their young ones become strong.

They grow up in the open field.

They go out, and don’t return again.

5 "Who has set the wild donkey free?

Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

6 whose home I have made the wilderness,

and the salt land his dwelling place?

7 He scorns the tumult of the city,

neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.

8 The range of the mountains is his pasture.

He searches after every green thing.

9 "Will the wild ox be content to serve you?

Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

10 Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness?

Or will he till the valleys after you?

11 Will you trust him, because his strength is great?

Or will you leave to him your labor?

12 Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed,

and gather the grain of your threshing floor?

13 "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,

but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

14 For she leaves her eggs on the earth,

warms them in the dust,

15 and forgets that the foot may crush them,

or that the wild animal may trample them.

16 She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers.

Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,

17 because God has deprived her of wisdom,

neither has he imparted to her understanding.

18 When she lifts up herself on high,

she scorns the horse and his rider.

19 "Have you given the horse might?

Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?

20 Have you made him to leap as a locust?

The glory of his snorting is awesome.

21 He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength.

He goes out to meet the armed men.

22 He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed,

neither does he turn back from the sword.

23 The quiver rattles against him,

the flashing spear and the javelin.

24 He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage,

neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

25 As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’

He smells the battle afar off,

the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

26 "Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars,

and stretches her wings toward the south?

27 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up,

and makes his nest on high?

28 On the cliff he dwells and makes his home,

on the point of the cliff and the stronghold.

29 From there he spies out the prey.

His eyes see it afar off.

30 His young ones also suck up blood.

Where the slain are, there he is."

Te Ariki o ngā Kararehe

1 "E mōhiotia ana rānei e koe te wā e whānau ai ngā koati mohoao o te kāmaka?

E kitea pūtia ana rānei e koe te wā e whakamamae ai ngā hāta?

2 E taua anō rānei e koe ngā marama e rite ana i a rātou?

E mōhio ana rānei koe ki te wā e whānau ai rātou?

3 Tuohu ana rātou, kua puta mai ā rātou kūao,

ākiritia mai ana e rātou ō rātou mea whakapōuri.

4 E pai ana te āhua o ā rātou kūao, e tupu ana i te pārae;

ka haere atu rātou, ā, kāhore e hoki mai anō.

5 "Nā wai i tuku te kāihe mohoao kia haere noa atu;

ngā here o te kāihe mohoao, nā wai i wewete?

6 Ko te whare i whakaritea nei e ahau mōna, ko te koraha;

ko ōna nohoanga ko te wāhi tītōhea.

7 Whakahāweatia iho e ia te ngangau o te pā;

e kore ia e rongo ki te reo o te kaiakiaki.

8 Ko tōna wāhi kai kei te tuahiwi o ngā maunga,

e rapua ana e ia ngā mea matomato katoa.

9 "E pai rānei te unikanga kia mahi ki a koe?

Kei tāu takotoranga kai rānei he moenga mōna?

10 E herea rānei e koe te unikanga ki tōna taura i te awa parautanga?

E rakarakatia rānei e ia ngā raorao me tāna whai anō i a koe?

11 E whakawhirinaki atu rānei koe ki a ia, nō te mea e nui ana tōna kaha?

E whakarērea atu rānei e koe tāu mahi māna?

12 E whakapono atu rānei koe māna āu hua e whakahoki mai;

māna e kohikohi mai ki tāu patunga wīti?

13 "E whakamanamana ana te parirau o te otereti;

otirā he atawhai anō rānei tā ōna hou, tā ōna raukura?

14 E whakarērea ana e ia ōna hua ki te whenua,

whakamahanatia iho e ia ki te puehu,

15 wareware ake ia tērā pea e pēpē i te waewae,

e takahia rānei e te kīrehe o te pārae.

16 He mea pakeke ia ki āna pī, me te mea ehara i a ia;

ahakoa ka maumauria tāna mahi, kāhore ōna manawapā;

17 nō te mea i whakakāhoretia e te Atua he ngākau mahara mōna,

kīhai hoki i hōmai he whakaaro ki a ia.

18 I te wā e maranga ai ia ki runga,

whakahāweatia iho e ia te hōiho rāua ko tōna kaieke.

19 "Nāu rānei i hoatu tōna kaha ki te hōiho?

Nāu rānei tōna kakī i whakakākahu ki te huruhuru?

20 Nāu rānei ia i mea kia pekepeke, kia pērā me te māwhitiwhiti?

He hanga whakawehi te korōria o tōna whewhengu.

21 E hūkari ana ia i te raorao, me te koa anō ki tōna kaha;

tika tonu ia ki te hunga mau patu.

22 Whakahāwea ana ia ki te wehi, kāhore ōna mataku;

e kore anō ia e nunumi mai i te hoari.

23 Papā ana te papa pere ki tōna taha,

te tao e rarapa ana, me te tīmata.

24 E horomia ana e ia te whenua, me te ngangau me te riri;

kāhore ia i te whakapono ko te reo tērā o te tētere.

25 Ka tangi ana te tētere ka mea ia, ‘Ha, ha!’

I tawhiti anō ka hongia e ia te pakanga,

te whatitiri o ngā rangatira, me te hāmama.

26 "He mōhio nōu i rere ai te kāhu,

i roha ai i ōna parirau, i anga ai whaka te tonga?

27 Nāu te kupu i kake ai te ēkara?

I hangā ai e ia tāna ōhanga ki te wāhi tiketike?

28 Noho ana ia i runga i te kāmaka, kei reira tōna kāinga,

kei te kāmaka keokeo, kei te pā kaha.

29 Ā, rapua ana e ia he kai i reira;

e kite atu ana ōna kanohi i tawhiti.

30 Horomititia ake ana hoki ngā toto e āna pī;

ā, ko te wāhi i ngā tūpāpaku, kei reira anō ia."