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39 : 1 Do you know whenthe mountain goats give birth?Do you observethe calving of the does?
39 : 2 Can you number the months that they fulfill,and do you know the time when they give birth,
39 : 3 when theycrouch, bring forth their offspring,and are delivered of their young?
39 : 4 Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open;they go out anddo not return to them.
39 : 5 Who has let the wild donkey go free?Who hasloosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
39 : 6 to whom I have giventhe arid plain for his homeandthe salt land for his dwelling place?
39 : 7 He scorns the tumult of the city;he hears not the shouts of the driver.
39 : 8 He ranges the mountains as his pasture,and he searches after every green thing.
39 : 9 Isthe wild ox willing to serve you?Will he spend the night at yourmanger?
39 : 10 Can you bindhim in the furrow with ropes,or will he harrow the valleys after you?
39 : 11 Will you depend on him because his strength is great,and will you leave to him your labor?
39 : 12 Do you have faith in him that he will return your grainand gather it to your threshing floor?
39 : 13 The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,but are they the pinions and plumage of love?
39 : 14 For she leaves her eggs to the earthand lets them be warmed on the ground,
39 : 15 forgetting that a foot may crush themand that the wild beast may trample them.
39 : 16 Shedeals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers;though herlabor be in vain, yet she has no fear,
39 : 17 because God has made her forget wisdomandgiven her no share in understanding.
39 : 18 When she rouses herself to flee,she laughs at the horse and his rider.
39 : 19 Do you give the horse his might?Do you clothe his neck with a mane?
39 : 20 Do you make him leap like the locust?His majesticsnorting is terrifying.
39 : 21 He pawsin the valley and exults in his strength;hegoes out to meet the weapons.
39 : 22 He laughs at fear and is not dismayed;he does not turn back from the sword.
39 : 23 Upon him rattle the quiver,the flashing spear, and the javelin.
39 : 24 With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground;he cannot stand still atthe sound of the trumpet.
39 : 25 When the trumpet sounds, he saysAha!He smells the battle from afar,the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
39 : 26 Is it by your understanding that the hawk soarsand spreads his wings toward the south?
39 : 27 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts upand makes hisnest on high?
39 : 28 On the rock he dwells and makes his home,onthe rocky crag and stronghold.
39 : 29 From there he spies out the prey;his eyes behold it from far away.
39 : 30 His young ones suck up blood,andwhere the slain are, there is he.