159 lines
2.7 KiB
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159 lines
2.7 KiB
Markdown
The LORD's Challenge Continues
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# Chapter 39
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1. "Do you know when the wild goats give birth?
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Have you watched as deer are born in the wild?
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2. Do you know how many months they carry their young?
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Are you aware of the time of their delivery?
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3. They crouch down to give birth to their young
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and deliver their offspring.
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4. Their young grow up in the open fields,
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then leave home and never return.
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5. "Who gives the wild donkey its freedom?
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Who untied its ropes?
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6. I have placed it in the wilderness;
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its home is the wasteland.
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7. It hates the noise of the city
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and has no driver to shout at it.
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8. The mountains are its pastureland,
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where it searches for every blade of grass.
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9. "Will the wild ox consent to being tamed?
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Will it spend the night in your stall?
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10. Can you hitch a wild ox to a plow?
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Will it plow a field for you?
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11. Given its strength, can you trust it?
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Can you leave and trust the ox to do your work?
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12. Can you rely on it to bring home your grain
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and deliver it to your threshing floor?
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13. "The ostrich flaps her wings grandly,
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but they are no match for the feathers of the stork.
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14. She lays her eggs on top of the earth,
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letting them be warmed in the dust.
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15. She doesn't worry that a foot might crush them
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or a wild animal might destroy them.
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16. She is harsh toward her young,
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as if they were not her own.
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She doesn't care if they die.
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17. For God has deprived her of wisdom.
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He has given her no understanding.
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18. But whenever she jumps up to run,
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she passes the swiftest horse with its rider.
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19. "Have you given the horse its strength
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or clothed its neck with a flowing mane?
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20. Did you give it the ability to leap like a locust?
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Its majestic snorting is terrifying!
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21. It paws the earth and rejoices in its strength
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when it charges out to battle.
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22. It laughs at fear and is unafraid.
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It does not run from the sword.
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23. The arrows rattle against it,
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and the spear and javelin flash.
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24. It paws the ground fiercely
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and rushes forward into battle when the ram's horn blows.
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25. It snorts at the sound of the horn.
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It senses the battle in the distance.
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It quivers at the captain's commands and the noise of battle.
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26. "Is it your wisdom that makes the hawk soar
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and spread its wings toward the south?
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27. Is it at your command that the eagle rises
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to the heights to make its nest?
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28. It lives on the cliffs,
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making its home on a distant, rocky crag.
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29. From there it hunts its prey,
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keeping watch with piercing eyes.
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30. Its young gulp down blood.
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Where there's a carcass, there you'll find it."
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