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64 lines
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# Chapter 39
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1 “Do you know the time when the wild mountain goats bear young?
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Or can you mark when the deer gives birth?
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2 Can you number the months that they fulfill?
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Or do you know the time when they bear young?
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3 They bow down,
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They bring forth their young,
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They deliver their offspring.
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4 Their young ones are healthy,
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They grow strong with grain;
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They depart and do not return to them.
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5 “Who set the wild donkey free?
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Who loosed the bonds of the onager,
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6 Whose home I have made the wilderness,
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And the barren land his dwelling?
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7 He scorns the tumult of the city;
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He does not heed the shouts of the driver.
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8 The range of the mountains is his pasture,
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And he searches after every green thing.
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9 “Will the wild ox be willing to serve you?
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Will he bed by your manger?
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10 Can you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes?
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Or will he plow the valleys behind you?
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11 Will you trust him because his strength is great?
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Or will you leave your labor to him?
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12 Will you trust him to bring home your grain,
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And gather it to your threshing floor?
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13 “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,
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But are her wings and pinions like the kindly stork’s?
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14 For she leaves her eggs on the ground,
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And warms them in the dust;
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15 She forgets that a foot may crush them,
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Or that a wild beast may break them.
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16 She treats her young harshly, as though they were not hers;
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Her labor is in vain, without concern,
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17 Because God deprived her of wisdom,
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And did not endow her with understanding.
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18 When she lifts herself on high,
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She scorns the horse and its rider.
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19 “Have you given the horse strength?
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Have you clothed his neck with thunder?
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20 Can you frighten him like a locust?
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His majestic snorting strikes terror.
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21 He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength;
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He gallops into the clash of arms.
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22 He mocks at fear, and is not frightened;
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Nor does he turn back from the sword.
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23 The quiver rattles against him,
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The glittering spear and javelin.
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24 He devours the distance with fierceness and rage;
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Nor does he come to a halt because the trumpet has sounded.
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25 At the blast of the trumpet he says, ‘Aha!’
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He smells the battle from afar,
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The thunder of captains and shouting.
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26 “Does the hawk fly by your wisdom,
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And spread its wings toward the south?
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27 Does the eagle mount up at your command,
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And make its nest on high?
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28 On the rock it dwells and resides,
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On the crag of the rock and the stronghold.
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29 From there it spies out the prey;
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Its eyes observe from afar.
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30 Its young ones suck up blood;
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And where the slain are, there it is.” |