1 (H39:4) Tiedätkö sinä vuorikauristen poikimisajat, valvotko peurojen synnytyskipuja?
2 (H39:5) Lasketko, milloin niiden kuukaudet täyttyvät, ja tiedätkö ajan, milloin ne poikivat?
3 (H39:6) Ne painautuvat maahan, saavat ilmoille sikiönsä ja vapautuvat synnytystuskistaan.
4 (H39:7) Niiden vasikat vahvistuvat, kasvavat kedolla; ne lähtevät tiehensä eivätkä enää palaja.
5 (H39:8) Kuka on laskenut villiaasin vapaaksi, kuka irroittanut metsäaasin siteet,
6 (H39:9) sen, jolle minä annoin aavikon asunnoksi ja suola-aron asuinsijaksi?
7 (H39:10) Se nauraa kaupungin kohinalle, ajajan huutoa se ei kuule;
8 (H39:11) se tähystelee vuorilta laiduntansa ja etsii kaikkea vihantaa.
9 (H39:12) Taipuuko villihärkä sinua palvelemaan, ja yöpyykö se sinun seimesi ääreen?
10 (H39:13) Voitko ohjaksilla pakottaa villihärän vaolle, tahi äestääkö se laaksonpohjia sinua seuraten?
11 (H39:14) Voitko siihen luottaa, siksi että sen voima on suuri, voitko jättää sen haltuun työsi hedelmät?
12 (H39:15) Voitko uskoa, että se palajaa ja kokoaa viljasi sinun puimatantereellesi?
13 (H39:16) Kamelikurjen siipi lepattaa iloisesti, mutta asuuko sen sulissa ja höyhenissä haikaran hellyys?
14 (H39:17) Se jättää munansa maahan, hiekalle helteen haudottaviksi.
15 (H39:18) Ei se ajattele, että jalka voi ne särkeä ja metsän eläimet polkea ne rikki.
16 (H39:19) Se on tyly poikasilleen, niinkuin ne eivät olisikaan sen omia; hukkaan menee sen vaiva, mutta ei se sitä pelkää.
17 (H39:20) Sillä Jumala on jättänyt sen viisautta vaille ja tehnyt sen ymmärryksestä osattomaksi.
18 (H39:21) Kun se kiitää ilmaa piesten, nauraa se hevoselle ja ratsumiehelle.
19 (H39:22) Sinäkö annat hevoselle voiman, puetat sen kaulan liehuvalla harjalla?
20 (H39:23) Sinäkö panet sen hyppimään kuin heinäsirkan? Sen uljas korskunta on peljättävä.
21 (H39:24) Se kuopii lakeutta ja iloitsee, lähtee voimalla asevarustuksia vastaan.
22 (H39:25) Se nauraa pelolle, ei säiky eikä väisty miekan edestä.
23 (H39:26) Sen yllä kalisee viini, välkähtää keihäs ja peitsi.
24 (H39:27) Käy jyrinä ja jytinä, kun se laukaten taivalta ahmii; ei mikään sitä pidätä sotatorven pauhatessa.
25 (H39:28) Milloin ikinä sotatorvi soi, hirnuu se: iihaha! Jo kaukaa se vainuaa taistelun, päälliköiden jylisevän äänen ja sotahuudon.
26 (H39:29) Sinunko ymmärryksesi voimasta jalohaukka kohoaa korkealle, levittää siipensä kohti etelää?
27 (H39:30) Tahi sinunko käskystäsi kotka lentää ylhäälle ja tekee pesänsä korkeuteen?
28 (H39:31) Kalliolla se asuu ja yöpyy, kallion kärjellä, vuorilinnassaan.
29 (H39:32) Sieltä se tähystelee saalista; kauas katsovat sen silmät.
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.