1: Do you know the/time of an ibex (wild goat, national symbol of Qatar) writhing on a rock in childbearing/lambing, keep watch on deer?
2: Can you count? The new moons are completing.
And do you know the/time of childbirthing
3: their (fem) delivery?
Their (umbilical) cord is cut and they are sent forth.
4: Their children (sons) dream (Joel 2:28). They strengthen with grain (yirbu b’bar). They had broken forth and had not returned to them.
5: Who had set a wild ass (Ishmael Gen 16:12, unrestrained promiscuous covenanted people Hos 8:9) free?
And who had opened up the restraints of an onager (swift half horse- half donkey found across all Asia)
6: whose house I had appointed as a desert plain (Arabah) and his tabernacles a salt (Mlaeka)?
7: He derides the city bustle and does not heed a manager.
8: He reconnoiters moutains for pastureland and afterwards seeks all the greenery.
9: Is a wild ox willing to serve you? (abdeka)
If (so, will he) lodge in your manger? (Awbuseka)
10: Can you bind a wild ox with a rope in a furrow? If (so will he) harrow (break up earth clods after ploughing) valleys after you?
11: Can you trust in him for his great enduring-strength and leave your toil to him?
12: Can you give cause to affirm (amen) him to cause him to return your grain and gather-to-collect it to your threshing floor?
13: A wing of ringing-outers/praise singers (?ostrich – no maternal instinct, impressive cry?media) were rejoiced about if her pinion (terminal wing for lift) and feather (is like a) stork (Kheseda – Maternal bird (from Khesed?) with impressive looking wings but short flight).
14: For she leaves her egg on land and she warms them in dust.
15: She forgets that a foot (could) crush it and a living being of the filed (could) tread on it.
16: Her daughters were caused to be hardened to her for no purpose, her labour without dread,
17: for her god made her forget her wisdom and did not apportion her her Discernment.
18: In the/time of her height, she causes rebellious flapping and she laughs derisively at horse and rider.
19: Did you give a horse (representation of armies? Especially Egypt?) its might? Did you cause his neck to be clothed in a mane?
20: Did you cause him to quake like a swarming locust? The majesty of his snort of dread?
21: They paw in the valley. He rejoices in strength. He goes forth to befall a weapon.
22: He laughs at dread and he is not dismayed and he does not turn his face back from a sword,
23: A quiver of arrows ring out over him, a flame, a spear and a javelin.
24: With a earthquake and a rage, he swallows up the ground and does not cause the voice of a shofar to affirm (amen).
25: To enough of a shofar he says, “Hee-yah”. He breathes (Ruach) battle thunder, captains from afar and a blast (thruah).
26: Does a hawk fly by your understanding and spread out his wings to the south/right hand/Teman? (from yamin/ right hand/ south, south West Jordan, northwest Saudi, traditionally academic, Ma’an in Saudi today, Jesus as Judge goes from Teman to Botsrah Is 63:1, Amos 1:12, Obadiah 1:9 )
27: If by your mouth, an eagle ( netsah-bud, nets – eagle, both from netsats – glare/sparkle like polished bronze eyes of Ezekiel’s living beings from the north vision Ezek 1:7, unclean as is the ostrich daughter and stork Lev 11:16) is made to be lofty and if he makes his nest on high,
28: dwells on a rock. And makes himself lodge on a rock precipice and it is a fortress,
29: and from there he searches out food, making his eyes scan from afar.
30: And his brood suck blood. And where the pierced are, there he is.
Phew!
Prayer:
Father Yehoweh, do we dare ask You ‘Why Suffering’ when we know you will rightly question our capacity to understand or tame wild causers of suffering both in their strength and foolishness. We know that a god of the causers of suffering gave them their strength or foolishness. Amen.
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