Job 39

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1. 1Do you know the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Or can you observe when the deer calve?
2. 2Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they bring forth?
3. 3They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
4. 4Their young ones are in good condition, they grow up with grain; they go out and do not return to them.
5. 5Who has sent out the wild donkey free? Or who has loosed the bonds of the wild donkey?
6. 6Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the barren land its dwellings.
7. 7It scorns the multitude of the city, and does not regard the crying of the driver.
8. 8The range of the mountains is its pasture, and it searches after every green thing.
9. 9Will the unicorn be willing to serve you, or stay by your feeding trough?
10. 10Can you bind the unicorn with its band in the furrow? Or will it harrow the valleys after you?
11. 11Will you trust it because its strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to it?
12. 12Will you believe him, that he will bring home your seed and gather it into your barn?
13. 13Did you give the beautiful wings to the peacocks? Or wings and feathers to the ostrich?
14. 14Which leaves her eggs in the earth, and warms them in the dust,
15. 15and forgets that a foot may crush them, or that a wild beast may break them.
16. 16She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labor is in vain, without fear.
17. 17Because God has deprived her of wisdom, and has not given her understanding.
18. 18When she lifts herself up on high, she scorns the horse and its rider.
19. 19Have you given the horse strength? Have you clothed its neck with thunder?
20. 20Can you make him afraid like a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrifying.
21. 21It paws in the valley and rejoices in its strength; it goes out to meet the armed men.
22. 22It mocks at fear and is not frightened; it does not turn back from the sword.
23. 23The quiver rattles against it, the glittering spear and the shield.
24. 24It swallows the ground with fierceness and rage; it does not believe that it is the sound of the trumpet.
25. 25It says among the trumpets, 'Ha, ha!' and it smells the battle from afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
26. 26Does the hawk fly by your wisdom and stretch its wings toward the south?
27. 27Does the eagle mount up at your command and make its nest on high?
28. 28It dwells and abides on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
29. 29From there it seeks the prey; its eyes see from far off.
30. 30Its young ones also suck up blood; and where the slain are, there it is.