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1“Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does? | 1Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? |
2Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth, | 2Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? |
3when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young? | 3They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows. |
4Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them. | 4Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. |
5“Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey, | 5Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? |
6to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place? | 6Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. |
7He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver. | 7He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. |
8He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing. | 8The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. |
9“Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your manger? | 9Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? |
10Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you? | 10Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? |
11Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor? | 11Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? |
12Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain and gather it to your threshing floor? | 12Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? |
13“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love? | 13Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? |
14For she leaves her eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground, | 14Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, |
15forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them. | 15And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. |
16She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear, | 16She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear; |
17because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding. | 17Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding. |
18When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider. | 18What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider. |
19“Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane? | 19Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? |
20Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrifying. | 20Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. |
21He paws in the valley and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons. | 21He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. |
22He laughs at fear and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword. | 22He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword. |
23Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear, and the javelin. | 23The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. |
24With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet. | 24He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. |
25When the trumpet sounds, he says ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. | 25He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. |
26“Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south? | 26Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south? |
27Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high? | 27Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? |
28On the rock he dwells and makes his home, on the rocky crag and stronghold. | 28She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. |
29From there he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it from far away. | 29From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. |
30His young ones suck up blood, and where the slain are, there is he.” | 30Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she. |
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