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