 1 Do you know the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Can you observe the calving of deer? 2 Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time for their bearing, 3 when they bow down and bring forth. They send out their pangs. 4 Their young ones are strong, they multiply with grain. They go forth and do not return to them again. 5 Who has sent out the wild donkey free? Or who has loosed the bands of the wild donkey. 6 I have made the wilderness to be its home and the barren land its dwelling place. 7 He scorns the turmoil of the city. He does not hear the driver's shouts. 8 He seeks out mountains for his pasture, and he searches after every green thing. 9 Will the wild ox be willing to serve you, or spend the night by your feed trough? 10 Can you tie the wild ox in the furrow with his rope? Or will he harrow the valleys for you? 11 Will you trust him because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to him? 12 Will you trust him, that he will return your seed and gather it to your grain floor? 13 The wing of the ostrich beats joyously. Though not like the stork's pinions for flight. 14 For she leaves her eggs to the earth, and lets them warm in the dust, 15 and forgets that a foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may break them. 16 She treats her young roughly, as if not hers. For her labor is vanity without fear; 17 because God has caused her to forget wisdom, and He has not given her a share in understanding. 18 At the time she lifts herself up on high, she scorns the horse and its rider. 19 Have you given the horse strength? Have you clothed his neck with a mane? 20 Can you make him leap like a locust? The glory of his snorting is terrifying. 21 He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes on to meet the weapons. 22 He mocks at fear, and is not terrified. And he does not turn back from the sword. 23 The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the shield. 24 He swallows the ground with quivering and rage. And he does not stand still at the sound of the trumpet. 25 When the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha. He smells the battle far away, the thunder of the captains and the shouting. 26 Does the hawk soar by your understanding? Will he spread his wings toward the south? 27 Does the eagle mount up at your command and make its nest on high? 28 It lives and stays on the rock, on the crag of the rock and the strong place. 29 From there it seeks prey and its eyes see it far away. 30 Its young suck up blood so it goes wherever the killed are found.
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