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39:1  Do you know when mountain goats are born, or watch for the birth pangs of deer,
39:2  Number the months that they must fulfill, or know when they give birth,
39:3  When they crouch down and drop their young, when they deliver their progeny?
39:4  Their offspring thrive and grow in the open, they leave and do not return.
39:5  Who has given the wild donkey his freedom, and who has loosed the wild ass from bonds?
39:6  I have made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
39:7  He scoffs at the uproar of the city, hears no shouts of a driver.
39:8  He ranges the mountains for pasture, and seeks out every patch of green.
39:9  Will the wild ox consent to serve you, or pass the nights at your manger?
39:10  Will you bind the wild ox with a rope in the furrow, and will he plow the valleys after you?
39:11  Will you depend on him for his great strength and leave to him the fruits of your toil?
39:12  Can you rely on him to bring in your grain and gather in the yield of your threshing floor?
39:13  The wings of the ostrich flap away; her plumage is lacking in feathers.
39:14  When she abandons her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand,
39:15  She forgets that a foot may crush them, that the wild beasts may trample them;
39:16  She cruelly disowns her young and her labor is useless; she has no fear.
39:17  For God has withheld wisdom from her and given her no share in understanding.
39:18  Yet when she spreads her wings high, she laughs at a horse and rider.
39:19  Do you give the horse his strength, and clothe his neck with a mane?
39:20  Do you make him quiver like a locust, while his thunderous snorting spreads terror?
39:21  He paws the valley, he rejoices in his strength, and charges into battle.
39:22  He laughs at fear and cannot be terrified; he does not retreat from the sword.
39:23  Around him rattles the quiver, flashes the spear and the javelin.
39:24  Frenzied and trembling he devours the ground; he does not hold back at the sound of the trumpet;
39:25  at the trumpet’s call he cries, “Aha!” Even from afar he scents the battle, the roar of the officers and the shouting.
39:26  Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars, that he spreads his wings toward the south?
39:27  Does the eagle fly up at your command to build his nest up high?
39:28  On a cliff he dwells and spends the night, on the spur of cliff or fortress.
39:29  From there he watches for his food; his eyes behold it afar off.
39:30  His young ones greedily drink blood; where the slain are, there is he.