| 1. | Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough, |
| 2. | When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood? |
| 3. | Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food? |
| 4. | Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young? |
| 5. | Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you? |
| 6. | They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body. |
| 7. | Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again. |
| 8. | Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast? |
| 9. | To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place. |
| 10. | He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears; |
| 11. | He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing. |
| 12. | Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store? |
| 13. | Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you? |
| 14. | Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care? |
| 15. | Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor? |
| 16. | Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers, |
| 17. | That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust, |
| 18. | Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field? |
| 19. | She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear. |
| 20. | For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge. |
| 21. | When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him. |
| 22. | Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power? |
| 23. | Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath? |
| 24. | He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear. |
| 25. | In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword. |
| 26. | The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow. |
| 27. | Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn; |
| 28. | When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries. |
| 29. | Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south? |
| 30. | Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high? |
| 31. | On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place. |
| 32. | From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off. |
| 33. | His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen. |
| 34. | ... |
| 35. | Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer. |
| 36. | And Job said in answer to the Lord, |
| 37. | Truly, I am of no value; what answer may I give to you? I will put my hand on my mouth. |
| 38. | I have said once, and even twice, what was in my mind, but I will not do so again. |