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39:1 'Do you know when the mountain goats bring forth? Do you observe the calving of the hinds? 39:2 Can you number the months that they fulfil, and do you know the time when they bring forth, 39:3 when they crouch, 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 forth, and do not return to them. 39:5 'Who has let the wild ass go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass, 39:6 to whom I have given the steppe for his home, and the 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 'Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your crib? 39:10 Can you bind him 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, and bring your grain 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 earth, and lets them be warmed on the ground, 39:15 forgetting that a foot may crush them, and that the wild beast may trample them. 39:16 She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers;though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear; 39:17 because God has made her forget wisdom, and given 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 strength? 39:20 Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrible. 39:21 He paws in the valley, and exults in his strength;he goes 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 at the sound of the trumpet. 39:25 When the trumpet sounds, he says Aha!' He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. 39:26 'Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and spreads his wings toward the south? 39:27 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high? 39:28 On the rock he dwells and makes his home in the fastness of the rocky crag. 39:29 Thence he spies out the prey;his eyes behold it afar off. 39:30 His young ones suck up blood;and where the slain are, there is he.'