38:39 “Do you hunt prey for the lioness,
and satisfy the appetite 1 of the lions,
38:40 when they crouch in their dens,
when they wait in ambush in the thicket?
38:41 Who prepares prey for the raven,
when its young cry out to God
and wander about 2 for lack of food?
39:1 “Are you acquainted with the way 3
the mountain goats 4 give birth?
Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?
39:2 Do you count the months they must fulfill,
and do you know the time they give birth? 5
39:3 They crouch, they bear 6 their young,
they bring forth the offspring they have carried. 7
39:4 Their young grow strong, and grow up in the open; 8
they go off, and do not return to them.
39:5 Who let the wild donkey go free?
Who released the bonds of the donkey,
39:6 to whom I appointed the steppe for its home,
the salt wastes as its dwelling place?
39:7 It scorns the tumult in the town;
it does not hear the shouts of a driver. 9
39:8 It ranges the hills as its pasture,
and searches after every green plant.
39:9 Is the wild ox willing to be your servant?
Will it spend the night at your feeding trough?
39:10 Can you bind the wild ox 10 to a furrow with its rope,
will it till the valleys, following after you?
39:11 Will you rely on it because its strength is great?
Will you commit 11 your labor to it?
39:12 Can you count on 12 it to bring in 13 your grain, 14
and gather the grain 15 to your threshing floor? 16
39:26 “Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars, 17
and spreads its wings toward the south?
39:27 Is it at your command 18 that the eagle soars,
and builds its nest on high?
39:28 It lives on a rock and spends the night there,
on a rocky crag 19 and a fortress. 20
39:29 From there it spots 21 its prey, 22
its eyes gaze intently from a distance.
39:30 And its young ones devour the blood,
and where the dead carcasses 23 are,
there it is.”
41:4 Will it make a pact 24 with you,
so you could take it 25 as your slave for life?
41:5 Can you play 26 with it, like a bird,
or tie it on a leash 27 for your girls?
41:6 Will partners 28 bargain 29 for it?
Will they divide it up 30 among the merchants?
41:7 Can you fill its hide with harpoons
or its head with fishing spears?
41:8 If you lay your hand on it,
you will remember 31 the fight,
and you will never do it again!
41:9 (41:1) 32 See, his expectation is wrong, 33
he is laid low even at the sight of it. 34
41:10 Is it not fierce 35 when it is awakened?
Who is he, then, who can stand before it? 36
41:11 (Who has confronted 37 me that I should repay? 38
Everything under heaven belongs to me!) 39
41:12 I will not keep silent about its limbs,
and the extent of its might,
and the grace of its arrangement. 40
41:13 Who can uncover its outer covering? 41
Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor? 42
41:14 Who can open the doors of its mouth? 43
Its teeth all around are fearsome.
41:15 Its back 44 has rows of shields,
shut up closely 45 together as with a seal;
41:16 each one is so close to the next 46
that no air can come between them.
41:17 They lock tightly together, one to the next; 47
they cling together and cannot be separated.
41:18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light;
its eyes are like the red glow 48 of dawn.
41:19 Out of its mouth go flames, 49
sparks of fire shoot forth!
41:20 Smoke streams from its nostrils
as from a boiling pot over burning 50 rushes.
41:21 Its breath sets coals ablaze
and a flame shoots from its mouth.
41:22 Strength lodges in its neck,
and despair 51 runs before it.
41:23 The folds 52 of its flesh are tightly joined;
they are firm on it, immovable. 53
41:24 Its heart 54 is hard as rock,
hard as a lower millstone.
41:25 When it rises up, the mighty are terrified,
at its thrashing about they withdraw. 55
41:26 Whoever strikes it with a sword 56
will have no effect, 57
nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.
41:27 It regards iron as straw
and bronze as rotten wood.
41:28 Arrows 58 do not make it flee;
slingstones become like chaff to it.
41:29 A club is counted 59 as a piece of straw;
it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
41:30 Its underparts 60 are the sharp points of potsherds,
it leaves its mark in the mud
like a threshing sledge. 61
41:31 It makes the deep boil like a cauldron
and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment, 62
41:32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it;
one would think the deep had a head of white hair.
41:33 The likes of it is not on earth,
a creature 63 without fear.
41:34 It looks on every haughty being;
it is king over all that are proud.” 64