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CHAPTER 39

1
Do you know
when
mountain
goats
give birth?
Have you watched
the doe
bear her fawn?
2
Can you count
the months
they are pregnant?
Do you know
the time
they give birth?
3
They crouch down
and bring forth
their young;
they deliver
their newborn.
4
Their young ones
thrive
and grow up
in the open field;
they leave
and do not
return.
5
Who
set
the wild donkey
free?
Who
released
the swift donkey
from the harness?
6
I made
the wilderness
his home
and the salt flats
his dwelling.
7
He scorns
the tumult
of the city
and never
hears
the shouts
of a driver.
8
He roams
the mountains
for pasture,
searching
for
any
green thing.
9
Will the wild ox
consent
to serve you?
Will he stay
by
your manger at night?
10
Can you hold
him
to the furrow
with a harness?
Will he plow
the valleys
behind you?
11
Can you rely
on his
great
strength?
Will you leave
your hard work
to him?
12
Can you trust
him
to
bring in
your grain
and gather it
to your threshing floor?
13
The wings
of the ostrich
flap joyfully,
but cannot match
the pinions
and feathers
of the stork.
14
For
she leaves
her eggs
on the ground
and lets them warm
in
the sand.
15
She forgets
that
a foot
may crush them,
or a wild
animal
may trample them.
16
She treats her young
harshly,
as if not
her own,
with no
concern
that her labor
was in vain.
17
For
God
has deprived her
of wisdom;
He has not
endowed
her
with understanding.
18
Yet when
she proudly
spreads her wings,
she laughs
at the horse
and its rider.
19
Do you give
strength
to the horse
or adorn
his neck
with a mane?
20
Do you make him leap
like a locust,
striking terror
with his proud
snorting?
21
He paws
in the valley
and rejoices
in his strength;
he charges
into battle.
22
He laughs
at fear,
frightened
of nothing;
he does not
turn back
from
the sword.
23
A quiver
rattles
at his side,
along with a flashing
spear
and lance.
24
Trembling
with excitement,
he devours
the distance;
he cannot
stand still
when the trumpet
sounds.
25
At
the blast of the trumpet,
he snorts
with fervor!
He catches the scent
of battle
from afar,
the shouts
of captains
and the cry of battle.
26
Does the hawk
take flight
by your understanding
and spread
his wings
toward the south?
27
Does the eagle
soar
at
your command
and make his nest
on high?
28
He dwells
on a cliff
and lodges there;
his stronghold
is on
a rocky
crag.
29
From there
he spies
out food;
his eyes
see
it from afar.
30
His young ones
feast on
blood;
and where
the slain are,
there
he is.”
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