Job

1“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth?Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

2Can you count the months that they fulfill?Or do you know the time when they give birth?

3They bow themselves. They bear their young.They end their labor pains.

4Their young ones become strong.They grow up in the open field. They go out, and don’t return again.

5“Who has set the wild donkey free?Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

6whose home I have made the wilderness,and the salt land his dwelling place?

7He scorns the tumult of the city,neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.

8The range of the mountains is his pasture.He searches after every green thing.

9“Will the wild ox be content to serve you?Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

10Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness?Or will he till the valleys after you?

11Will you trust him, because his strength is great?Or will you leave to him your labor?

12Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed,and gather the grain of your threshing floor?

13“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

14For she leaves her eggs on the earth,warms them in the dust,

15and forgets that the foot may crush them,or that the wild animal may trample them.

16She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers.Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,

17because God has deprived her of wisdom,neither has he imparted to her understanding.

18When she lifts up herself on high,she scorns the horse and his rider.

19“Have you given the horse might?Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?

20Have you made him to leap as a locust?The glory of his snorting is awesome.

21He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength.He goes out to meet the armed men.

22He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed,neither does he turn back from the sword.

23The quiver rattles against him,the flashing spear and the javelin.

24He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage,neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

25As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

26“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars,and stretches her wings toward the south?

27Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up,and makes his nest on high?

28On the cliff he dwells and makes his home,on the point of the cliff and the stronghold.

29From there he spies out the prey.His eyes see it afar off.

30His young ones also suck up blood.Where the slain are, there he is.”

1có nhìn thấy nai mẹ đẻ con ?

2và biết được mùa chúng sinh nở ?

3Chúng ngồi xổm, sinh một bầy con, trút bỏ cơn đau đớn.

4rồi bỏ bầy, không trở về với mẹ.

5ai đã cởi dây cột lừa hoang ?

6đồng chua nước mặn làm chỗ dung thân.

7chẳng nghe lời quát tháo của người cai.

8để tìm kiếm cỏ non.

9có chịu qua đêm bên máng cỏ ngươi làm ?

10và liệu nó có chịu đi theo ngươi cày bừa dưới thung lũng ?

11để giao cho nó những công việc nặng nề ?

12và đem lúa về sân phơi của ngươi không ?

13với cánh loài chim hạc, chim ưng.

14phó mặc cho cát bụi nóng ran,

15hay một con thú rừng giày đạp.

16có vất vả luống công, nó cũng không tiếc nuối.

17và không chia cho nó phần trí tuệ.

18nó coi thường ngựa phi và người cưỡi.

19choàng lên cổ nó một cái bờm

20Tiếng nó hí vang, gây kinh hoàng táng đởm.

21chẳng màng chi vũ khí.

22trước mũi gươm, nhất định không lùi bước.

23Trên đầu nó, tên bay vùn vụt, giáo và lao sáng quắc.

24nghe tiếng kèn thúc quân, nó không cầm mình nổi.

25nghe được tiếng tướng lãnh quát vang và tiếng hò xung trận.

26sải cánh hướng về phương nam ?

27tìm nơi cao chót vót mà làm tổ ?

28và nghỉ đêm trong khe núi đá.

29Từ chỏm núi cao, nó rình mồi, đôi mắt nhìn ra xa.

30xác chết ở đâu là nó ở đó.