39:4 Their young grow strong, and grow up in the open; 1
they go off, and do not return to them.
39:8 It ranges the hills as its pasture,
and searches after every green plant.
39:30 And its young ones devour the blood,
and where the dead carcasses 2 are,
there it is.”
1 tn The idea is that of the open countryside. The Aramaism is found only here.
2 tn The word חֲלָלִים (khalalim) designates someone who is fatally wounded, literally the “pierced one,” meaning anyone or thing that dies a violent death.