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Job 39

30 aligned verses; 30 with wording or punctuation differences .

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Verse BSB Berean Standard Bible YLT Young's Literal Translation
“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn ?
Hast thou known the time of The bearing of the wild goats of the rock ? The bringing forth of hinds thou dost mark!
Can you count the months they are pregnant ? Do you know the time they give birth?
Thou dost number the months they fulfil ? And thou hast known the time of their bringing forth!
They crouch down and bring forth their young ; they deliver their newborn .
They bow down , Their young ones they bring forth safely, Their pangs they cast forth .
Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field ; they leave and do not return .
Safe are their young ones , They grow up in the field , they have gone out, And have not returned to them .
Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness ?
Who hath sent forth the wild ass free? Yea, the bands of the wild ass who opened ?
I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
Whose house I have made the wilderness , And his dwellings the barren land,
He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver .
He doth laugh at the multitude of a city , The cries of an exactor he heareth not .
He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.
The range of mountains `is' his pasture, And after every green thing he seeketh .
Will the wild ox consent to serve you ? Will he stay by your manger at night ?
Is a Reem willing to serve thee ? Doth he lodge by thy crib ?
Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness ? Will he plow the valleys behind you ?
Dost thou bind a Reem in a furrow ` with ' his thick band ? Doth he harrow valleys after thee ?
Can you rely on his great strength ? Will you leave your hard work to him?
Dost thou trust in him because great `is' his power ? And dost thou leave unto him thy labour ?
Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
Dost thou trust in him That he doth bring back thy seed? And ` to ' thy threshing - floor doth gather `it' ?
The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully , but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork .
The wing of the rattling ones exulteth , Whether the pinion of the ostrich or hawk .
For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.
For she leaveth on the earth her eggs , And on the dust she doth warm them,
She forgets that a foot may crush them , or a wild animal may trample them .
And she forgetteth that a foot may press it , And a beast of the field tread it down .
She treats her young harshly, as if not her own , with no concern that her labor was in vain.
Her young ones it hath hardened without her, In vain `is' her labour without fear .
For God has deprived her of wisdom ; He has not endowed her with understanding .
For God hath caused her to forget wisdom , And He hath not given a portion To her in understanding :
Yet when she proudly spreads her wings , she laughs at the horse and its rider.
At the time on high she lifteth herself up , She laugheth at the horse and at his rider.
Do you give strength to the horse or adorn his neck with a mane?
Dost thou give to the horse might? Dost thou clothe his neck ` with ' a mane?
Do you make him leap like a locust , striking terror with his proud snorting ?
Dost thou cause him to rush as a locust ? The majesty of his snorting `is' terrible.
He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he charges into battle .
They dig in a valley , and he rejoiceth in power, He goeth forth to meet the armour .
He laughs at fear, frightened of nothing; he does not turn back from the sword.
He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted, And he turneth not back from the face of the sword.
A quiver rattles at his side , along with a flashing spear and lance .
Against him rattle doth quiver, The flame of a spear , and a halbert .
Trembling with excitement, he devours the distance; he cannot stand still when the ram’s horn sounds .
With trembling and rage he swalloweth the ground, And remaineth not stedfast Because of the sound of a trumpet .
At 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 .
Among the trumpets he saith, Aha, And from afar he doth smell battle, Roaring of princes and shouting .
Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south?
By thine understanding flieth a hawk? Spreadeth he his wings to the south?
Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high ?
At thy command goeth an eagle up high? Or lifteth he up his nest?
He dwells on a cliff and lodges there; his stronghold is on a rocky crag .
A rock he doth inhabit, Yea, he lodgeth on the tooth of a rock, and fortress .
From there he spies out food ; his eyes see it from afar.
From thence he hath sought food , To a far off place his eyes look attentively,
His young ones feast on blood ; and where the slain are , there he is .”
And his brood gulph up blood , And where the pierced ` are ' -- there ` is ' he!

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