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