The Koine Bible

Do you know the time of the birth of the goats of the rocks, and did you watch over the pains of the does?

And you counted the full months of their giving birth, and their labor pains you loosed.

But you have nourished their young ones outside fear; you will send away their pains.

Their young ones will break off, they will multiply in offspring, they will go out and by no means will they return to them

And who is it that set free the wild donkey, and who has loosed its bonds?

I made his dwelling place a wilderness, and his encampments a salt plantland.

He laughs at the uproar of a city, and he does not hear the shout of the tax collector

He will scan the mountains for his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing.

Will the unicorn be willing to serve you, or to sleep at your manger?

Will you bind his yoke in straps, or will he drag your furrows in the plain?

Will you trust in him because his strength is great? and will you leave your works to him?

Will you believe that he will return your seed, and will he bring it into your threshing floor?

The wing of rejoicing is Neelasa, if she should conceive, and Asida and Nessa.

For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and on the dust she warms them

And she forgets that a foot will trample and wild beasts of the field will tread down.

She hardened her children so that she labored not in vain for herself, without fear

For God has deprived her of wisdom and has not apportioned to her understanding

At the proper time, in height, he raises himself; he laughs at the horse and at its rider.

Or have you clothed the horse with strength, and have you put fear around his neck?

And you have clothed him with armor; but the glory of his chest is with boldness.

Digging in the plain, he exults; and he goes out to the field in strength.

He meets the spear, he laughs at it, and he will certainly not turn back from iron.

Upon him the bow and sword rattle with pride

And in rage he will swallow the earth, and he will not believe until the trumpet sounds.

And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha; and from afar he scents the battle, with leaping and shouting

Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars, spreading its wings, motionless, looking toward the south?

By your command does the eagle soar high, and the vulture, having sat on its nest, lodges there?

On a high crag and in a hiding place of rock

There being there, he seeks the food from afar; his eyes look out from far away.

And his young are soaked in blood, and where they may be, the slain are found at once