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39:1  Do you know the time when the antelope on the cliffs gives birth? Do you keep watch over the doe as she is in labor?
39:2  Do you count how many months they carry their young? Do you know when it is time for them to give birth?
39:3  They crouch down. They give birth to their fawns. Their labor pains are over.
39:4  Their young are lively and live in the open countryside. They go out, and they do not return to them.
39:5  Who set the wild donkey free? Who untied the restraints on the onager?
39:6  I have given it the wasteland as its home, the salt flats as its dwelling place.
39:7  It brays at the commotion in a town. It does not listen to the shouting of the driver.
39:8  It explores the mountains as its pasture, while it searches for anything green.
39:9  Is a wild ox willing to serve you? Will it spend the night at your manger?
39:10  Can you lead the wild ox down a furrow with a rope? Will it work the fields in the valleys behind you?
39:11  Will you depend on it because it is so strong? Will you rely on it to labor for you?
39:12  Will you trust it to return your seed grain and to bring it to your threshing floor?
39:13  The wings of a screeching ostrich flap wildly, but they do not have feathers and plumage like a stork’s.
39:14  She leaves her eggs on the ground. She keeps them warm in the dust.
39:15  She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.
39:16  She is hard-hearted toward her children. It is as if they were not hers. It does not bother her if her labor is for nothing,
39:17  because God made her forget wisdom, and he has not given her any understanding.
39:18  But as soon as she jumps up to run, she laughs at the horse and the rider.
39:19  Did you give strength to the horse? Did you clothe its neck with a flowing mane?
39:20  Did you give it the ability to jump like a locust? Its snorting and neighing are frightening.
39:21  It paws at the ground in the valley. It rejoices in its strength. It goes out to meet the weapons of war.
39:22  It laughs at danger and is not afraid. It does not turn away from the sword.
39:23  A quiver rattles against it. A spear and a javelin flash.
39:24  Shaking with excitement, it swallows up ground. It doesn’t just stand there when the ram’s horn sounds.
39:25  As often as the horn sounds, it neighs and snorts! From a distance it smells the battle, the thunder of the commanders and the war cries.
39:26  Did you teach the hawk how to soar, as it spreads out its wings to the south?
39:27  Is it at your command that the eagle flies high and makes its nest in a lofty place?
39:28  On a rocky cliff it settles down to spend the night, on a pinnacle of rock in a mountain stronghold.
39:29  From there it spies its food. Its eyes spot it far away.
39:30  Its young ones drink up the blood. Wherever the carcasses are—there it is.