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1 - “Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

2 - Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?

3 - They bow themselves, they bear their young. They end their labor pains.

4 - Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go out, and don’t return again.

5 - “Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

6 - Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

7 - He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.

8 - The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.

9 - “Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

10 - Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?

11 - Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?

12 - Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?

13 - “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

14 - For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,

15 - and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.

16 - She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,

17 - because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

18 - When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.

19 - “Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?

20 - Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.

21 - He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.

22 - He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn back from the sword.

23 - The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.

24 - He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

25 - As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

26 - “Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?

27 - Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?

28 - On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.

29 - From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.

30 - His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is.”