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39:1  Do you know when mountain goats are born? Have you watched wild deer give birth?
39:2  Do you know how long they carry their young? Do you know the time for their birth?
39:3  Do you know when they will crouch down and bring their young into the world?
39:4  In the wilds their young grow strong; they go away and don't come back.
39:5  Who gave the wild donkeys their freedom? Who turned them loose and let them roam?
39:6  I gave them the desert to be their home, and let them live on the salt plains.
39:7  They keep far away from the noisy cities, and no one can tame them and make them work.
39:8  The mountains are the pastures where they feed, where they search for anything green to eat.
39:9  Will a wild ox work for you? Is he willing to spend the night in your stable?
39:10  Can you hold one with a rope and make him plow? Or make him pull a harrow in your fields?
39:11  Can you rely on his great strength and expect him to do your heavy work?
39:12  Do you expect him to bring in your harvest and gather the grain from your threshing place?
39:13  How fast the wings of an ostrich beat! But no ostrich can fly like a stork.
39:14  The ostrich leaves her eggs on the ground for the heat in the soil to warm them.
39:15  She is unaware that a foot may crush them or a wild animal break them.
39:16  She acts as if the eggs were not hers, and is unconcerned that her efforts were wasted.
39:17  It was I who made her foolish and did not give her wisdom.
39:18  But when she begins to run, she can laugh at any horse and rider.
39:19  Was it you, Job, who made horses so strong and gave them their flowing manes?
39:20  Did you make them leap like locusts and frighten people with their snorting?
39:21  They eagerly paw the ground in the valley; they rush into battle with all their strength.
39:22  They do not know the meaning of fear, and no sword can turn them back.
39:23  The weapons which their riders carry rattle and flash in the sun.
39:24  Trembling with excitement, the horses race ahead; when the trumpet blows, they can't stand still.
39:25  At each blast of the trumpet they snort; they can smell a battle before they get near, and they hear the officers shouting commands.
39:26  Does a hawk learn from you how to fly when it spreads its wings toward the south?
39:27  Does an eagle wait for your command to build its nest high in the mountains?
39:28  It makes its home on the highest rocks and makes the sharp peaks its fortress.
39:29  From there it watches near and far for something to kill and eat.
39:30  Around dead bodies the eagles gather, and the young eagles drink the blood.