Ayub 39:1

39:1 “Are you acquainted with the way ¹ 

the mountain goats ²  give birth?

Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?

Yesaya 45:9

The Lord Gives a Warning

45:9 One who argues with his creator is in grave danger, ³ 

one who is like a mere ⁴  shard among the other shards on the ground!

The clay should not say to the potter, ⁵ 

“What in the world ⁶  are you doing?

Your work lacks skill!” ⁷ 

[39:1]  ¹ tn The text uses the infinitive as the object: “do you know the giving birth of?”

[39:1]  ² tn Or “ibex.”

[45:9]  ³ tn Heb “Woe [to] the one who argues with the one who formed him.”

[45:9]  ⁴ tn The words “one who is like a mere” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and clarification.

[45:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “Should the clay say to the one who forms it?” The rhetorical question anticipates a reply, “Of course not!”

[45:9]  ⁶ tn The words “in the world” are supplied in the translation to approximate in English idiom the force of the sarcastic question.

[45:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “your work, there are no hands for it,” i.e., “your work looks like something made by a person who has no hands.”