| 章 |
| 39:1 |
Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? dost thou mark the calving of the hinds?
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| 39:2 |
Dost thou number the months that they fulfil? and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
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| 39:3 |
They bow themselves, they give birth to their young ones, they cast out their pains;
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| 39:4 |
Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go forth, and return not unto them.
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| 39:5 |
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager,
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| 39:6 |
Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?
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| 39:7 |
He laugheth at the tumult of the city, and heareth not the shouts of the driver;
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| 39:8 |
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
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| 39:9 |
Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib?
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| 39:10 |
Canst thou bind the buffalo with his cord in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
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| 39:11 |
Wilt thou put confidence in him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
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| 39:12 |
Wilt thou trust him to bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor?
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| 39:13 |
The wing of the ostrich beats joyously -- But is it the stork's pinion and plumage?
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| 39:14 |
For she leaveth her eggs to the earth, and warmeth them in the dust,
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| 39:15 |
And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may trample them.
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| 39:16 |
She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern.
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| 39:17 |
For +God hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding.
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| 39:18 |
What time she lasheth herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
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| 39:19 |
Hast thou given strength to the horse? hast thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane?
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| 39:20 |
Dost thou make him to leap as a locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.
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| 39:21 |
He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in [his] strength; he goeth forth to meet the armed host.
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| 39:22 |
He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from before the sword.
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| 39:23 |
The quiver rattleth upon him, the glittering spear and the javelin.
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| 39:24 |
He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, and cannot contain himself at the sound of the trumpet:
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| 39:25 |
At the noise of the trumpets he saith, Aha! and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
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| 39:26 |
Doth the hawk fly by thine intelligence, [and] stretch his wings toward the south?
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| 39:27 |
Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make his nest on high?
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| 39:28 |
He inhabiteth the rock and maketh his dwelling on the point of the cliff, and the fastness:
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| 39:29 |
From thence he spieth out the prey, his eyes look into the distance;
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| 39:30 |
And his young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is he.
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