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| [1]Knowest thou the time whe the wylde goates bring foorth their young among the stonye rockes? or layest thou wayte when the hindes vse to calue |
[1]Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? |
| [2]Canst thou number the monethes that they go with young? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth |
[2]Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? |
| [3]They lye downe, they calue their young ones, and they are deliuered of their trauaile and paine |
[3]They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows. |
| [4]Yet their young ones grow vp, and waxe fatte through good feeding with corne: They go foorth, and returne not againe vnto them |
[4]Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. |
| [5]Who letteth the wylde asse to go free? or who looseth the bondes of the wylde mule |
[5]Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? |
| [6]Euen I which haue geuen the wyldernesse to be their house, and the vntilled land to be their dwelling |
[6]Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. |
| [7]They force not for the multitude of people in the citie, neither regarde the crying of the driuer |
[7]He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. |
| [8]But seeke their pasture about the mountaines, and folowe the greene grasse |
[8]The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. |
| [9]Wyll the vnicorne do thee seruice, or abide still by thy cribbe |
[9]Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? |
| [10]Canst thou binde the yoke about the vnicorne in the forowe, to make him plowe after thee in the valleyes |
[10]Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? |
| [11]Mayst thou trust him because he is strong, or commit thy labour vnto him |
[11]Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? |
| [12]Mayst thou beleue him that he wyll bring home thy corne, or carry any thing vnto thy barne |
[12]Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? |
| [13]Gauest thou the faire winges vnto the pecockes, or winges and fethers vnto the Estriche |
[13]Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? |
| [14]For she leaueth her egges in the earth, and heateth them in the dust |
[14]Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, |
| [15]She remembreth not that they might be troden with feete, or broken with some wilde beaste |
[15]And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. |
| [16]So harde is she vnto her young ones as though they were not hers, and laboureth in vaine without any feare |
[16]She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: her labour is in vain without fear; |
| [17]And that because God hath taken wysdome from her, & hath not geuen her vnderstanding |
[17]Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding. |
| [18]When her time is that she fleeth vp on hie, she careth neither for the horse nor the ryder |
[18]What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider. |
| [19]Hast thou geue the horse his strength, or learned him to ney coragiously |
[19]Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? |
| [20]Canst thou make him afrayde as a grashopper? where as the stoute neying that he maketh is fearefull |
[20]Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. |
| [21]He breaketh the grounde with the hooffes of his feete, he reioyceth cherefully in his strength, and runneth to meete the harnest men |
[21]He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. |
| [22]He layeth aside all feare, his stomacke is not abated, neither starteth he backe for any sworde |
[22]He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword. |
| [23]Though the quiuers rattle vpon him, though the speare and shielde glister |
[23]The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. |
| [24]Yet rusheth he in fiercely beating the grounde, he thinketh it not the noyse of the trumpettes |
[24]He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. |
| [25]But when the trumpettes make most noyse, he saith, tushe, for he smelleth the battaile a farre of, the noyse of the captaines and the shouting |
[25]He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. |
| [26]Commeth it through thy wysdome that the Goshauke flieth toward the south |
[26]Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south? |
| [27]Doth the Egle mount vp, and make his nest on hye at thy comaundement |
[27]Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? |
| [28]He abydeth in stony rockes, and dwelleth vpon the hye toppes of moutaines |
[28]She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. |
| [29]From whence he seeketh his praye, and loketh farre about with his eyes |
[29]From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. |
| [30]His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where any dead body lyeth, there is he |
[30]Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she. |