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39:1  “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does?
39:2  Can you number the months that they fulfil, and do you know the time when they give birth,
39:3  when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young?
39:4  Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them.
39:5  “Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
39:6  to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place?
39:7  He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver.
39:8  He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
39:9  “Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your manger?
39:10  Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?
39:11  Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labour?
39:12  Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
39:13  “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love?
39:14  For she leaves her eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground,
39:15  forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them.
39:16  She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labour be in vain, yet she has no fear,
39:17  because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding.
39:18  When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider.
39:19  “Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane?
39:20  Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrifying.
39:21  He paws in the valley and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons.
39:22  He laughs at fear and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword.
39:23  Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear, and the javelin.
39:24  With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
39:25  When the trumpet sounds, he says ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
39:26  “Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings towards the south?
39:27  Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high?
39:28  On the rock he dwells and makes his home, on the rocky crag and stronghold.
39:29  From there he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it from far away.
39:30  His young ones suck up blood, and where the slain are, there is he.”