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Chapter 39
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Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock
bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? |
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Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest
thou the time when they bring forth? |
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They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones,
they cast out their sorrows. |
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Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with
corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. |
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Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed
the bands of the wild ass? |
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Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren
land his dwellings. |
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He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth
he the crying of the driver. |
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The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth
after every green thing. |
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Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide
by thy crib? |
10
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Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow?
or will he harrow the valleys after thee? |
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Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great?
or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? |
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Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy
seed, and gather it into thy barn? |
13
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Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or
wings and feathers unto the ostrich? |
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Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them
in dust, |
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And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that
the wild beast may break them. |
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She is hardened against her young ones, as though they
were not her's: her labour is in vain without fear; |
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Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath
he imparted to her understanding. |
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What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth
the horse and his rider. |
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Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed
his neck with thunder? |
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Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory
of his nostrils is terrible. |
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He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength:
he goeth on to meet the armed men. |
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He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither
turneth he back from the sword. |
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The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear
and the shield. |
24
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He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage:
neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. |
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He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth
the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and
the shouting. |
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Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings
toward the south? |
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Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her
nest on high? |
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She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag
of the rock, and the strong place. |
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From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold
afar off. |
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Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain
are, there is she. |
