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39:1  "Do you know when the mountain goat gives birth? Do you watch the doe as it calves its young?
39:2  Can you count the months of their gestation? Do you know the time when they give birth,
39:3  when they crouch down to give birth to their offspring, and let go of their birth pangs?
39:4  Their young are strong; they grow up in the open field; then they go off and don't return to them."
39:5  "Who sets the wild donkey free? Who loosens the bonds of the wild donkey
39:6  to whom I've given the Arabah for a home; the salt plain for his dwelling place?
39:7  He despises city noises; he ignores the shouts of the driver.
39:8  He ranges the mountains that are his pasture to search for anything green.
39:9  Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he sleep at night near your feeding trough?
39:10  Can you bind the ox to plow a furrow with a rope? Will he harrow after you in the valley?
39:11  Will you trust him because of his great strength and entrust your labor to him?
39:12  Will you trust him that he'll bring in your grain, and gather it to your threshing floor?"
39:13  "The wings of the ostrich flap joyously, but aren't its pinions and feathers like the stork?
39:14  She abandons her eggs on the ground and lets them be warmed in the sand,
39:15  but she forgets that a foot might crush them or any wild animal might trample them.
39:16  She mistreats her young as though they're not hers, and she has no fear that her labor may be in vain,
39:17  because God didn't grant her wisdom and never gave her understanding.
39:18  And yet when she gets ready to run, she laughs at the horse and its rider."
39:19  Do you instill the horse with strength? Do you clothe its neck with a mane?
39:20  Can you make him leap like the locust, and make the splendor of his snorting terrifying?
39:21  He paws the ground in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he goes out to face weapons.
39:22  He scoffs at fear and is never scared; he never retreats from a sword.
39:23  A quiver of arrows rattles against his side, along with a flashing spear and a lance.
39:24  Leaping in his excitement, he takes in the ground; he cannot stand still when the trumpets sound!
39:25  When the trumpet blasts he'll neigh, 'Aha! Aha!' From a distance he can sense war, the war cry of generals, and their shouting."
39:26  "Is it by your understanding that the hawk flies, spreading its wings toward the south?
39:27  Does the eagle soar high at your command and build its nest on the highest crags?
39:28  He dwells on the crags where he makes his home, there on the rocky crag is his stronghold.
39:29  From there he searches for prey, and his eyes recognize it from a distance.
39:30  His young ones feast on blood; he'll be found wherever there's a carcass."