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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. |
7 |
He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. |
8 |
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. |
9 |
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? |
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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 |
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 hers: 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. |
18 |
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? |
20 |
Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. |
21 |
He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. |
22 |
He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword. |
23 |
The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. |
24 |
He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. |
25 |
He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. |
26 |
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? |
28 |
She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. |
29 |
From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. |
30 |
Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she. |
