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Job 39 : 1 - 30
Chapter 39
1 | "Do you know the time when the wild mountain goats bear young? Or can you mark when the deer gives birth?
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2 | Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they bear young?
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3 | They bow down, They bring forth their young, They deliver their offspring.
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4 | Their young ones are healthy, They grow strong with grain; They depart and do not return to them.
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5 | "Who set the wild donkey free? Who loosed the bonds of the onager,
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6 | Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwelling?
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7 | He scorns the tumult of the city; He does not heed the shouts of the driver.
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8 | The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searches after every green thing.
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9 | "Will the wild ox be willing to serve you? Will he bed by your manger?
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10 | Can you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes? Or will he plow the valleys behind you?
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11 | Will you trust him because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to him?
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12 | Will you trust him to bring home your grain, And gather it to your threshing floor?
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13 | "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, But are her wings and pinions like the kindly stork's?
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14 | For she leaves her eggs on the ground, And warms them in the dust;
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15 | She forgets that a foot may crush them, Or that a wild beast may break them.
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16 | She treats her young harshly, as though they were not hers; Her labor is in vain, without concern,
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17 | Because God deprived her of wisdom, And did not endow her with understanding.
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18 | When she lifts herself on high, She scorns the horse and its rider.
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19 | "Have you given the horse strength? Have you clothed his neck with thunder?
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20 | Can you frighten him like a locust? His majestic snorting strikes terror.
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21 | He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength; He gallops into the clash of arms.
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22 | He mocks at fear, and is not frightened; Nor does he turn back from the sword.
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23 | The quiver rattles against him, The glittering spear and javelin.
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24 | He devours the distance with fierceness and rage; Nor does he come to a halt because the trumpet has sounded.
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25 | At the blast of the trumpet he says, "Aha!' He smells the battle from afar, The thunder of captains and shouting.
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26 | "Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, And spread its wings toward the south?
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27 | Does the eagle mount up at your command, And make its nest on high?
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28 | On the rock it dwells and resides, On the crag of the rock and the stronghold.
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29 | From there it spies out the prey; Its eyes observe from afar.
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30 | Its young ones suck up blood; And where the slain are, there it is."
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