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39:1  When do mountain goats and deer give birth? Have you been there when their young are born? *
39:2  How long are they pregnant
39:3  before they deliver?
39:4  Soon their young grow strong and then leave to be on their own.
39:5  Who set wild donkeys free?
39:6  I alone help them survive in salty desert sand.
39:7  They stay far from crowded cities and refuse to be tamed.
39:8  Instead, they roam the hills, searching for pastureland.
39:9  Would a wild ox agree to live in your barn and labor for you?
39:10  Could you force him to plow or to drag a heavy log to smooth out the soil?
39:11  Can you depend on him to use his great strength and do your heavy work?
39:12  Can you trust him to harvest your grain or take it to your barn from the threshing place?
39:13  An ostrich proudly flaps her wings, but not because she loves her young.
39:14  She abandons her eggs and lets the dusty ground keep them warm.
39:15  And she doesn't seem to worry that the feet of an animal could crush them all.
39:16  She treats her eggs as though they were not her own, unconcerned that her work might be for nothing.
39:17  I myself made her foolish and without common sense.
39:18  But once she starts running, she laughs at a rider on the fastest horse.
39:19  Did you give horses their strength and the flowing hair along their necks?
39:20  Did you make them able to jump like grasshoppers or to frighten people with their snorting?
39:21  Before horses are ridden into battle, they paw at the ground, proud of their strength.
39:22  Laughing at fear, they rush toward the fighting,
39:23  while the weapons of their riders rattle and flash in the sun.
39:24  Unable to stand still, they gallop eagerly into battle when trumpets blast.
39:25  Stirred by the distant smells and sounds of war, they snort in reply to the trumpet.
39:26  Did you teach hawks to fly south for the winter? *
39:27  Did you train eagles to build
39:28  their nests on rocky cliffs,
39:29  where they can look down to spot their next meal?
39:30  Then their young gather to feast wherever the victim lies. *