39:1 “Are you acquainted with the way 4
the mountain goats 5 give birth?
Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?
1 tn Heb “to search [for].”
2 tn Heb “upon the face of.”
3 tn Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).
4 tn The text uses the infinitive as the object: “do you know the giving birth of?”
5 tn Or “ibex.”