Berean Study Bible | International 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 goat gives birth? Do you watch the doe as it calves its young? |
2Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth? | 2Can you count the months of their gestation? Do you know the time when they give birth, |
3They crouch down and bring forth their young; they deliver their newborn. | 3when they crouch down to give birth to their offspring, and let go of their birth pangs? |
4Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return. | 4Their young are strong; they grow up in the open field; then they go off and don't return to them." |
5Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness? | 5"Who sets the wild donkey free? Who loosens the bonds of the wild donkey |
6I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling. | 6to whom I've given the Arabah for a home; the salt plain for his dwelling place? |
7He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver. | 7He despises city noises; he ignores the shouts of the driver. |
8He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing. | 8He ranges the mountains that are his pasture to search for anything green. |
9Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night? | 9Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he sleep at night near your feeding trough? |
10Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you? | 10Can you bind the ox to plow a furrow with a rope? Will he harrow after you in the valley? |
11Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him? | 11Will you trust him because of his great strength and entrust your labor to him? |
12Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor? | 12Will you trust him that he'll bring in 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 flap joyously, but aren't its pinions and feathers like the stork? |
14For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand. | 14She abandons her eggs on the ground and lets them be warmed in the sand, |
15She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them. | 15but she forgets that a foot might crush them or any wild animal might trample them. |
16She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain. | 16She mistreats her young as though they're not hers, and she has no fear that her labor may be in vain, |
17For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding. | 17because God didn't grant her wisdom and never gave her understanding. |
18Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider. | 18And yet when she gets ready to run, she laughs at the horse and its rider." |
19Do you give strength to the horse or adorn his neck with a mane? | 19Do you instill the horse with strength? Do you clothe its neck with a mane? |
20Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting? | 20Can you make him leap like the locust, and make the splendor of his snorting terrifying? |
21He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he charges into battle. | 21He paws the ground in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he goes out to face weapons. |
22He laughs at fear, frightened of nothing; he does not turn back from the sword. | 22He scoffs at fear and is never scared; he never retreats from a sword. |
23A quiver rattles at his side, along with a flashing spear and lance. | 23A quiver of arrows rattles against his side, along with a flashing spear and a lance. |
24Trembling with excitement, he devours the distance; he cannot stand still when the ram’s horn sounds. | 24Leaping in his excitement, he takes in the ground; he cannot stand still when the trumpets sound! |
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 blasts he'll neigh, 'Aha! Aha!' From a distance he can sense war, the war cry of generals, and their 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 flies, spreading its wings toward the south? |
27Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high? | 27Does the eagle soar high at your command and build its nest on the highest crags? |
28He dwells on a cliff and lodges there; his stronghold is on a rocky crag. | 28He dwells on the crags where he makes his home, there on the rocky crag is his stronghold. |
29From there he spies out food; his eyes see it from afar. | 29From there he searches for prey, and his eyes recognize it from a distance. |
30His young ones feast on blood; and where the slain are, there he is.” | 30His young ones feast on blood; he'll be found wherever there's a carcass." |
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