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