Job 39 Cross References - YLT

¹ Hast thou known the time of The bearing of the wild goats of the rock? The bringing forth of hinds thou dost mark! ² Thou dost number the months they fulfil? And thou hast known the time of their bringing forth! ³ They bow down, Their young ones they bring forth safely, Their pangs they cast forth. ⁴ Safe are their young ones, They grow up in the field, they have gone out, And have not returned to them. ⁵ Who hath sent forth the wild ass free? Yea, the bands of the wild ass who opened? ⁶ Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land, ⁷ He doth laugh at the multitude of a city, The cries of an exactor he heareth not. ⁸ The range of mountains is his pasture, And after every green thing he seeketh. ⁹ Is a Reem willing to serve thee? Doth he lodge by thy crib? ¹⁰ Dost thou bind a Reem in a furrow with his thick band? Doth he harrow valleys after thee? ¹¹ Dost thou trust in him because great is his power? And dost thou leave unto him thy labour? ¹² Dost thou trust in him That he doth bring back thy seed? And to thy threshing-floor doth gather it ?
¹³ The wing of the rattling ones exulteth, Whether the pinion of the ostrich or hawk. ¹⁴ For she leaveth on the earth her eggs, And on the dust she doth warm them, ¹⁵ And she forgetteth that a foot may press it, And a beast of the field tread it down. ¹⁶ Her young ones it hath hardened without her, In vain is her labour without fear. ¹⁷ For God hath caused her to forget wisdom, And He hath not given a portion To her in understanding: ¹⁸ At the time on high she lifteth herself up, She laugheth at the horse and at his rider.
¹⁹ Dost thou give to the horse might? Dost thou clothe his neck with a mane? ²⁰ Dost thou cause him to rush as a locust? The majesty of his snorting is terrible. ²¹ They dig in a valley, and he rejoiceth in power, He goeth forth to meet the armour. ²² He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted, And he turneth not back from the face of the sword. ²³ Against him rattle doth quiver, The flame of a spear, and a halbert. ²⁴ With trembling and rage he swalloweth the ground, And remaineth not stedfast Because of the sound of a trumpet. ²⁵ Among the trumpets he saith, Aha, And from afar he doth smell battle, Roaring of princes and shouting.
²⁶ By thine understanding flieth a hawk? Spreadeth he his wings to the south? ²⁷ At thy command goeth an eagle up high? Or lifteth he up his nest? ²⁸ A rock he doth inhabit, Yea, he lodgeth on the tooth of a rock, and fortress. ²⁹ From thence he hath sought food, To a far off place his eyes look attentively, ³⁰ And his brood gulp up blood, And where the pierced are —there is he!

⁵ hart, and roe, and fallow deer, and wild goat, and pygarg, and wild ox, and chamois;

² And Saul taketh three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and goeth to seek David and his men, on the front of the rocks of the wild goats,

⁹ The voice of Jehovah paineth the oaks, And maketh bare the forests, And in His temple every one saith, `Glory.'

¹⁸ The high hills are for wild goats, Rocks are a refuge for conies,

⁵ For even the hind in the field hath brought forth—to forsake it! For there hath been no grass.

²⁴ A wild ass accustomed to a wilderness, In the desire of her soul she hath swallowed up wind, Her meeting—who doth turn her back? None seeking her do weary themselves, In her month they find her.

¹² and he is a wild-ass man, his hand against every one, and every one's hand against him—and before the face of all his brethren he dwelleth.'

¹⁴ Issacher is a strong ass, Crouching between the two folds;

⁵ Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his provender?

¹² And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born.

⁵ Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself—food for young ones.

¹¹ They water every beast of the field, Wild asses break their thirst.

¹⁴ Surely the palace hath been left, The multitude of the city forsaken, Fort and watch-tower hath been for dens unto the age, A joy of wild asses—a pasture of herds;

⁶ And wild asses have stood on high places, They have swallowed up wind like dragons, Consumed have been their eyes, for there is no herb.

²¹ and from the sons of men he is driven, and his heart with the beasts hath been like, and with the wild asses is his dwelling; the herb like oxen they cause him to eat, and by the dew of the heavens is his body wet, till that he hath known that God Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and whom He willeth He raiseth up over it.

⁹ For they—they have gone up to Asshur, A wild ass alone by himself is Ephraim, They have hired lovers!

²³ (with brimstone and salt is the whole land burnt, it is not sown, nor doth it shoot up, nor doth there go up on it any herb, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overturned in His anger, and in His fury,) —

³⁴ A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.

⁶ And he hath been as a naked thing in a desert, And doth not see when good cometh, And hath inhabited parched places in a wilderness, A salt land, and not inhabited.

¹¹ Its miry and its marshy places—they are not healed; to salt they have been given up.

¹³ and the exactors are making haste, saying, `Complete your works, the matter of a day in its day, as when there is straw.' <sup>14</sup> And the authorities of the sons of Israel, whom the exactors of Pharaoh have placed over them, are beaten, saying, `Wherefore have ye not completed your portion in making brick as heretofore, both yesterday and to-day?'
¹⁵ And the authorities of the sons of Israel come in and cry unto Pharaoh, saying, `Why dost thou thus to thy servants? ¹⁶ Straw is not given to thy servants, and they are saying to us, Make bricks, and lo, thy servants are smitten—and thy people hath sinned.'

¹⁸ and now, go, serve; and straw is not given to you, and the measure of bricks ye do give.'

¹⁸ Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor,

¹⁸ At the time on high she lifteth herself up, She laugheth at the horse and at his rider.

⁴ For thus said Jehovah unto me: `As growl doth the lion and the young lion over his prey, Called against whom is a multitude of shepherds, From their voice he is not affrighted, And from their noise he is not humbled; So come down doth Jehovah of Hosts To war on mount Zion, and on her height.

³ `Why have we fasted, and Thou hast not seen? We have afflicted our soul, and Thou knowest not.' Lo, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, And all your labours ye exact.

²⁹ And God saith, `Lo, I have given to you every herb sowing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree sowing seed, to you it is for food; ³⁰ and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every creeping thing on the earth, in which is breath of life, every green herb is for food:' and it is so.

¹⁵ Lo, I pray thee, Behemoth, that I made with thee: Grass as an ox he eateth.

²⁰ For food do mountains bear for him, And all the beasts of the field play there. ²¹ Under shades he lieth down, In a secret place of reed and mire. ²² Cover him do shades, with their shadow, Cover him do willows of the brook.

²⁷ All of them unto Thee do look, To give their food in its season. ²⁸ Thou dost give to them—they gather, Thou dost open Thy hand—they are satisfied with good.

¹⁵ The eyes of all unto Thee do look, And Thou art giving to them their food in its season, ¹⁶ Opening Thy hand, and satisfying The desire of every living thing.

²² God is bringing them out from Egypt, As the swiftness of a Reem is to him;

¹⁷ His honour is a firstling of his ox, And his horns are horns of a reem; By them peoples he doth push together To the ends of earth; And they are the myriads of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.

²¹ Save me from the mouth of a lion: —And—from the horns of the high places Thou hast answered me!

¹⁰ And Thou exaltest as a reem my horn, I have been anointed with fresh oil.

³ An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.

¹⁴ And a messenger hath come in unto Job and saith, `The oxen have been plowing, and the she-asses feeding by their sides,

⁵ Who hath sent forth the wild ass free? Yea, the bands of the wild ass who opened?

⁷ He doth laugh at the multitude of a city, The cries of an exactor he heareth not.

⁵ Dost thou play with him as a bird? And dost thou bind him for thy damsels?

³ Over my back have ploughers ploughed, They have made long their furrows.

¹⁰ When I desire, then I do bind them, And gathered against them have peoples, When they bind themselves to their two iniquities. ¹¹ And Ephraim is a trained heifer—loving to thresh, And I—I have passed over on the goodness of its neck, I cause one to ride Ephraim, Plough doth Judah, harrow for him doth Jacob.

¹³ Bind the chariot to a swift beast, O inhabitant of Lachish, The beginning of sin is she to the daughter of Zion, For in thee have been found the transgressions of Israel.

²⁶ And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

²⁸ And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

² and your fear and your dread is on every beast of the earth, and on every fowl of the heavens, on all that creepeth on the ground, and on all fishes of the sea—into your hand they have been given.

²⁶ And they lift up their corn upon their asses, and go from thence,

⁷ Some of chariots, and some of horses, And we of the name of Jehovah our God Make mention.

¹⁶ The king is not saved by the multitude of a force. A mighty man is not delivered, By abundance of power. ¹⁷ A false thing is the horse for safety, And by the abundance of his strength He doth not deliver.

¹⁴ Our oxen are carrying, there is no breach, And there is no outgoing, And there is no crying in our broad places.

¹⁰ Not in the might of the horse doth He delight, Not in the legs of a man is He pleased.

⁴ Without oxen a stall is clean, And great is the increase by the power of the ox.

⁶ The burden of the beasts of the south. Into a land of adversity and distress, Of young lion and of old lion, Whence are viper and flying saraph, They carry on the shoulder of asses their wealth, And on the hump of camels their treasures, Unto a people not profitable.

¹⁶ And ye say, No, for on a horse we flee? Therefore ye flee, And on the swift we ride! Therefore swift are your pursuers.

¹ Woe to those going down to Egypt for help, And on horses lean, And trust on chariots, because many, And on horsemen, because very strong, And have not looked on the Holy One of Israel, And Jehovah have not sought. ² And He also is wise, and bringeth in evil, And His words He hath not turned aside, And He hath risen against a house of evil doers, And against the help of workers of iniquity. ³ And the Egyptians are men, and not God, And their horses are flesh, and not spirit, And Jehovah stretcheth out His hand, And stumbled hath the helper, And fallen hath the helped one, And together all of them are consumed.

¹ Bowed down hath Bel, stooping is Nebo, Their idols have been for the beast and for cattle, Your burdens are loaded, a burden to the weary.

¹⁵ In those days I have seen in Judah those treading wine-vats on sabbath, and bringing in the sheaves, and lading on the asses, and also, wine, grapes, and figs, and every burden, yea, they are bringing in to Jerusalem on the sabbath-day, and I testify in the day of their selling provision.

¹⁶ Length of days is in her right hand, In her left are wealth and honour.

¹³ Lo, I am pressing you under, As the full cart doth press for itself a sheaf.

¹⁹ Is the seed yet in the barn? And hitherto the vine and the fig, And the pomegranate, and the olive-tree, Have not borne—from this day I bless.'

² and saying, `Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,'

³⁰ suffer both to grow together till the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the darnel, and bind it in bundles, to burn it, and the wheat gather up into my storehouse.'

¹⁹ and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

²² for a navy of Tarshish hath the king at sea with a navy of Hiram; once in three years cometh the navy of Tarshish, bearing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

²¹ for ships of the king are going to Tarshish, with servants of Huram: once in three years come do the ships of Tarshish bearing gold, and silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

²⁹ A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.

¹⁷ Where birds do make nests, The stork—the firs are her house.

⁷ Even a stork in the heavens hath known her seasons, And turtle, and swallow, and crane, Have watched the time of their coming, And—My people have not known the judgment of Jehovah.

⁹ And I lift up mine eyes, and see, and lo, two women are coming forth, and wind in their wings; and they have wings like wings of the stork, and they lift up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.

⁵⁶ `The tender woman in thee, and the delicate, who hath not tried the sole of her foot to place on the ground because of delicateness and because of tenderness—her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter, ⁵⁷ and against her seed which cometh out from between her feet, even against her sons whom she doth bear, for she doth eat them for the lacking of all things in secret, in the siege and in the straitness with which thine enemy doth straiten thee within thy gates.

²⁶ And the woman whose son is the living one saith unto the king (for her bowels yearned over her son), yea, she saith, `O, my lord, give to her the living child, and put it not at all to death;' and this one saith, `Let it be neither mine or thine—cut it .' ²⁷ And the king answereth and saith, `Give ye to her the living child, and put it not at all to death; she is its mother.'

²⁸ And the king saith to her, `What—to thee?' and she saith, `This woman said unto me, Give thy son, and we eat him to-day, and my son we eat to-morrow; ²⁹ and we boil my son and eat him, and I say unto her on the next day, Give thy son, and we eat him; and she hideth her son.'

¹⁵ The labour of the foolish wearieth him, In that he hath not known to go unto the city.

²⁰ See, O Jehovah, and look attentively, To whom Thou hast acted thus, Do women eat their fruit, infants of a handbreadth? Slain in the sanctuary of the Lord are priest and prophet?

³ Even dragons have drawn out the breast, They have suckled their young ones, The daughter of my people is become cruel, Like the ostriches in a wilderness.

¹³ Lo, is it not from Jehovah of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?

³¹ unintelligent, faithless, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful;

³⁰ `And Sihon king of Heshbon hath not been willing to let us pass over by him, for Jehovah thy God hath hardened his spirit, and strengthened his heart, so as to give him into thy hand as at this day.

³¹ and so with the ambassadors of the heads of Babylon, those sending unto him to inquire of the wonder that hath been in the land, God hath left him to try him, to know all in his heart,

⁴ For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.

¹¹ Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'

¹¹ Only, fools are the princes of Zoan, The counsel of the wise ones of the counsellors of Pharaoh hath become brutish. How say ye unto Pharaoh, `A son of the wise am I, a son of kings of antiquity?' ¹² Where are they now, thy wise ones? Yea, let them tell to thee, I pray thee, And they know what Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled against Egypt! ¹³ Foolish have been princes of Zoan, Lifted up have been princes of Noph, And they have caused Egypt to err, The chief of her tribes. ¹⁴ Jehovah hath mingled in her midst A spirit of perverseness, And they have caused Egypt to err in all its work, As a drunkard erreth in his vomit.

¹⁷ For the iniquity of his dishonest gain, I have been wroth, and I smite him, Hiding—and am wroth, And he goeth on turning back in the way of his heart.

¹⁷ every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

²¹ this is the word that Jehovah spake concerning him: `Trampled on thee—laughed at thee, Hath the virgin daughter of Zion Behind thee shaken the head—Hath the daughter of Jerusalem?

²² At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid.

²² He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted, And he turneth not back from the face of the sword.

²⁹ As stubble have darts been reckoned, And he laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.

¹ Then singeth Moses and the sons of Israel this song to Jehovah, and they speak, saying: —`I sing to Jehovah, For triumphing He hath triumphed; The horse and its rider He hath thrown into the sea.

²⁵ Among the trumpets he saith, Aha, And from afar he doth smell battle, Roaring of princes and shouting.

¹ Jehovah hath reigned, Excellency He hath put on, Jehovah put on strength, He girded Himself, Also—established is the world, unmoved.

¹ Bless, O my soul, Jehovah! Jehovah, my God, Thou hast been very great, Honour and majesty Thou hast put on.

¹⁷ and James of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, and he put on them names—Boanerges, that is, `Sons of thunder;'

²⁰ Out of his nostrils goeth forth smoke, As a blown pot and reeds. ²¹ His breath setteth coals on fire, And a flame from his mouth goeth forth.

¹⁶ From Dan hath been heard the snorting of his horses, From the voice of the neighings of his mighty ones, Trembled hath all the land, And they come in and consume the land and its fulness, The city and the inhabitants in it.

⁵ As the noise of chariots, on the tops of the mountains they skip, As the noise of a flame of fire devouring stubble, As a mighty people set in array for battle.

²² Then broken were the horse-heels, By pransings—pransings of its mighty ones.

⁴ And there goeth out a man of the duellists from the camps of the Philistines, Goliath is his name, from Gath; his height is six cubits and a span, ⁵ and a helmet of brass is on his head, and with a scaled coat of mail he is clothed, and the weight of the coat of mail is five thousand shekels of brass, ⁶ and a frontlet of brass is on his feet, and a javelin of brass between his shoulders, ⁷ and the wood of his spear is like a beam of weavers', and the flame of his spear is six hundred shekels of iron, and the bearer of the buckler is going before him. ⁸ And he standeth and calleth unto the ranks of Israel, and saith to them, `Why are ye come out to set in array the battle? am not I the Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose for you a man, and let him come down unto me; <sup>9</sup> if he be able to fight with me, and have smitten me, then we have been to you for servants; and if I am able for him, and have smitten him, then ye have been to us for servants, and have served us.' <sup>10</sup> And the Philistine saith, `I have reproached the ranks of Israel this day; give to me a man, and we fight together.'

⁴² and the Philistine looketh attentively, and seeth David, and despiseth him, for he was a youth, and ruddy, with a fair appearance.

⁵ And he, as a bridegroom, goeth out from his covering, He rejoiceth as a mighty one To run the path.

³¹ A horse is prepared for a day of battle, And the deliverance is of Jehovah!

⁶ I have given attention, yea, I hearken, They do not speak right, No man hath repented of his wickedness, Saying, What have I done? Every one hath turned to his courses, As a horse is rushing into battle.

²³ Thus said Jehovah: Let not the wise boast himself in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty boast himself in his might, Let not the rich boast himself in his riches,

¹⁶ Her young ones it hath hardened without her, In vain is her labour without fear.

³³ There is not on the earth his like, That is made without terror.

²⁶ The sword of his overtaker standeth not, Spear—dart—and lance. ²⁷ He reckoneth iron as straw, brass as rotten wood. ²⁸ The son of the bow doth not cause him to flee, Turned by him into stubble are stones of the sling. ²⁹ As stubble have darts been reckoned, And he laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.

¹⁶ Though I had called and He answereth me, I do not believe that He giveth ear to my voice.

²⁴ I laugh unto them—they give no credence, And the light of my face cause not to fall.

²⁰ Is it declared to Him that I speak? If a man hath spoken, surely he is swallowed up.

¹⁹ My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at the walls of my heart, Make a noise for me doth My heart, I am not silent, For the voice of a trumpet I have heard, O my soul—a shout of battle!

⁶ Is a trumpet blown in a city, And do people not tremble? Is there affliction in a city, And Jehovah hath not done it ?

⁸ Swifter than leopards have been its horses, And sharper than evening wolves, And increased have its horsemen, Even its horsemen from afar come in, They fly as an eagle, hasting to consume. ⁹ Wholly for violence it doth come in, Their faces swallowing up the east wind, And it doth gather as the sand a captivity.

⁴¹ and while they are not believing from the joy, and wondering, he said to them, `Have ye anything here to eat?'

³ Let them turn back because of their shame, Who are saying, `Aha, aha.'

² Because that Tyre hath said of Jerusalem: Aha, she hath been broken, the doors of the peoples, She hath turned round unto me, I am filled—she hath been laid waste,

² Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because the enemy said against you, Aha, and the high places of old for a possession have been to us,

¹¹ `And Aaron hath brought near the bullock of the sin-offering which is his own, and hath made atonement for himself, and for his house, and hath slaughtered the bullock of the sin-offering which is his own,

¹⁵ and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind;

¹² The flowers have appeared in the earth, The time of the singing hath come, And the voice of the turtle was heard in our land,

⁴ Ye—ye have seen that which I have done to the Egyptians, and I bear you on eagles' wings, and bring you in unto Myself.

¹³ `And these ye do abominate of the fowl; they are not eaten, an abomination they are : the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

⁵ Who is satisfying with good thy desire, Renew itself as an eagle doth thy youth.

⁵ For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.

³¹ But those expecting Jehovah pass to power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

¹⁶ Thy terribleness hath lifted thee up, The pride of thy heart, O dweller in clefts of the rock, Holding the high place of the height, For thou makest high as an eagle thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.

¹ `Unto thy mouth—a trumpet, As an eagle against the house of Jehovah, Because they transgressed My covenant, And against My law they have rebelled.

⁴ If thou dost go up high as an eagle, And if between stars thou dost set thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁴ And between the passages where Jonathan sought to pass over unto the station of the Philistines is the edge of a rock on the one side, and the edge of a rock on the other side, and the name of the one is Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

²⁶ They have passed on with ships of reed, As an eagle darteth on food.

¹⁷ And thou, son of man, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Say to the bird—every wing, and to every beast of the field: Be assembled and come in, Be gathered from round about, For My sacrifice that I am sacrificing for you, A great sacrifice on mountains of Israel, And ye have eaten flesh, and drunk blood. ¹⁸ Flesh of the mighty ye do eat, And blood of princes of the earth ye drink, Of rams, of lambs, and of he-goats, Of calves, fatlings of Bashan—all of them. ¹⁹ And ye have eaten fat to satiety, And ye have drunk blood—to drunkenness, Of My sacrifice that I sacrificed for you.

²⁸ for wherever the carcase may be, there shall the eagles be gathered together.

³⁷ And they answering say to him, `Where, sir?' and he said to them, `Where the body is, there will the eagles be gathered together.'