Job 39

¹ You know when dem born mountain goat? You don watch as dem dey born deer?

² You know how long dem dey carry their young? You know the time dem dey born?

³ You know when dem go bend down, feel labor pain and bring their young into the world?

⁴ Their pikin dey grow strong inside bush; dem dey leave their mama and come back.

⁵ Who give donkey their freedom? Who dey commot their rope and allow them waka around?

⁶ I give them desert make e be their home, and allow them live on top salt land.

⁷ Dem dey far away from city wey get noise, and nobody fit calm them and make them work.

⁸ The mountain na the grassland wey dem dey chop, where dem dey search for anything green to chop.

⁹ Shey bull go work for una? Shey e go spend night for where una dey?

¹⁰ You fit hold one of them with rope and use am plant for farm? Or make am pull harrow for field?

¹¹ Na true say bull strong, but shey you fit trust am make e do your work?

¹² Shey you dey expect am make e bring you wetin you harvest and gather the grain wey dey your threshing place?

¹³ Na true say the wing of ostrich dey beat fast! But no ostrich fit fly like stork.

¹⁴ Ostrich dey leave their egg for ground make the heat wey dey for soil warm them.

¹⁵ Ostrich no know say person fit match on top them or terrible animal fit break them.

¹⁶ Ostrich dey act like say the egg no be hin own, and e no even concern am say na waste hin effort go be.

¹⁷ Na me make am foolish and I no give am wisdom.

¹⁸ But when e begin dey run, e go dey laugh horse and person wey dey ride am, because e dey run pass horse.

¹⁹ Job, shey na you make horse strong and put long hair for their neck?

²⁰ Na you make them dey jump like locust and make people fear with sound wey dem dey make?

²¹ Horse dey always dey happy to dey strong. E dey use hin leg scratch ground and run enter battle.

²² Dem no know wetin fear mean, and no sword fit make them turn back.

²³ The weapon wey their rider carry dey shake and flash for sun.

²⁴ Horse dey happy and run on top ground; when trumpet blow, dem no fit stand for one place.

²⁵ Dem dey make noise anytime dem hear blast of trumpet; dem fit smell battle before dem near am, and dem hear the officers as dem dey command.

²⁶ Hawk dey learn how to fly from you when e spread hin wing dey go south?

²⁷ Eagle dey wait for your command to build house for high mountain?

²⁸ E dey make hin house on top the rock wey high pass and na hin tower be that.

²⁹ For there e dey watch near and far for something to kill and chop.

³⁰ Eagle dey gather around dead body, and eagle pikin dey drink the blood.