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  • 1. Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? dost thou mark the calving of the hinds?
  • 2. Dost thou number the months that they fulfil? and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
  • 3. They bow themselves, they give birth to their young ones, they cast out their pains;
  • 4. Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go forth, and return not unto them.
  • 5. Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager,
  • 6. Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?
  • 7. He laugheth at the tumult of the city, and heareth not the shouts of the driver;
  • 8. The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
  • 9. Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib?
  • 10. Canst thou bind the buffalo with his cord in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
  • 11. Wilt thou put confidence in him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
  • 12. Wilt thou trust him to bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor?
  • 13. The wing of the ostrich beats joyously -- But is it the stork's pinion and plumage?
  • 14. For she leaveth her eggs to the earth, and warmeth them in the dust,
  • 15. And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may trample them.
  • 16. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern.
  • 17. For +God hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding.
  • 18. What time she lasheth herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
  • 19. Hast thou given strength to the horse? hast thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane?
  • 20. Dost thou make him to leap as a locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.
  • 21. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in [his] strength; he goeth forth to meet the armed host.
  • 22. He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from before the sword.
  • 23. The quiver rattleth upon him, the glittering spear and the javelin.
  • 24. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, and cannot contain himself at the sound of the trumpet:
  • 25. At the noise of the trumpets he saith, Aha! and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
  • 26. Doth the hawk fly by thine intelligence, [and] stretch his wings toward the south?
  • 27. Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make his nest on high?
  • 28. He inhabiteth the rock and maketh his dwelling on the point of the cliff, and the fastness:
  • 29. From thence he spieth out the prey, his eyes look into the distance;
  • 30. And his young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is he.