| 39 | Job | Reference | |
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| "Do you know when the mountain goats bring forth? Do you observe the calving of the hinds? | |||
| Can you number the months that they fulfil, and do you know the time when they bring forth, | |||
| when they crouch, bring forth their offsring, and are delivered of their young? | |||
| Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth, and do not return to them. | |||
| Can you number the months that they fulfil, and do you know the time when they bring forth, | |||
| to whom I have given the steppe for his home, and the salt land for his dwelling place? | |||
| He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver. | |||
| He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing. | |||
| "Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your crib? | |||
| Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you? | |||
| Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor? | |||
| Do you have faith in him that he will return, and bring your grain to your threshing floor? | |||
| "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the pinions and plumage of love? | |||
| For she leaves her eggs to the earth, and lets them be warmed on the ground, | |||
| forgetting that a foot may crush them, and that the wild beast may trample them. | |||
| She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear; | |||
| because God has made her forget wisdom, and given her no share in understanding. | |||
| When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider. | |||
| "Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with strength? | |||
| Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrible. | |||
| He paws in the valley, and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons. | |||
| He laughs at fear, and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword. | |||
| Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear and the javelin. | |||
| With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet. | |||
| When the trumpet sounds, he says 'Aha!' He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. | |||
| "Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and spreads his wings toward the south? | |||
| Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high? | |||
| On the rock he dwells and makes his home in the fastness of the rocky crag. | |||
| Thence he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it afar off. | |||
| His young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is he." | |||
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