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39:1  “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Have you ever observed deer in labor?
39:2  Can you accurately number the months that they carry their young or know the time of their delivery
39:3  when they crouch down to give birth and deliver their offspring?
39:4  Once their fawns grow strong and become independent, they go forth on their own and do not return.
39:5  “Who has given the wild donkey its freedom? Who has untied its ropes?
39:6  I gave it the wastelands as its home and the salt flats for its dwelling.
39:7  It scorns the noise of the city; it is not forced to obey a driver’s shouted order.
39:8  The mountains are the pasture over which it ranges in search of any green foliage.
39:9  “Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will it stay by your manger during the night?
39:10  Can you use ropes to harness its strength? Will it harrow the furrows after you?
39:11  Can you depend upon its massive strength to do your heavy work?
39:12  Can you rely upon it to return home and bring your grain to your threshing floor?
39:13  “The wings of an ostrich are ineffectual, since its pinions and its plumage are scanty.
39:14  It leaves its eggs on the ground and depends on the earth to warm them,
39:15  forgetting that a foot may crush them or that a wild animal may trample upon them.
39:16  It cruelly disowns its young as if they were not its own, unconcerned if its labor has been wasted.
39:17  For God has denied it wisdom and deprived it of understanding.
39:18  Yet with its swiftness of foot it leaves both horse and rider in the dust.
39:19  “Do you give the horse its strength? Have you clothed its neck with a mane?
39:20  Do you make it leap like a locust, striking terror with its proud snorting?
39:21  It paws the plain jubilantly and prances as it charges the battle line with all its strength.
39:22  It laughs at fear and is frightened of nothing; it does not shy away when confronted with the sword.
39:23  “The quiver rattles at its side; the spear and the javelin flash.
39:24  Trembling with eagerness it eats up the ground, and when the trumpet sounds, there is no holding it back.
39:25  At each blast of the trumpet it cries ‘Aha!’ From afar it scents the battle, the shouts of the commanders, and the war cries.
39:26  “Did your wisdom enable the hawk to soar as it spreads its wings toward the south?
39:27  Does the eagle soar aloft at your command to build its nest on the lofty heights?
39:28  It dwells on the cliff in security, spending its nights on a rocky crag.
39:29  From there it watches for its prey; its eyes are able to behold it from afar.
39:30  Its young ones hungrily drink the blood; wherever the slain are, it is there.”