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Chapter 39
1 know you the time when the wild goats bring forth among the rocks, or have you observed the hinds when they fawn?
2 have you numbered the months of their conceiving, or know you the time when they bring forth?
3 They bow themselves to bring forth young, and they cast them, and send forth roarings.
4 Their young are weaned and go to feed: they go forth, and return not to them.
5 Who has sent out the wild ass free, and who has loosed his bonds?
6 To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land.
7 He scorns the multitude of the city, he hears not the cry of the driver.
8 He looks round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeks for every green thing.
9 Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve you, or will he stay at your crib?
10 can you bind the rhinoceros with your thong to plough, or will he break the clods of the valleys after you?
11 will you have confidence in his great strength, and leave your labours to him?
12 will you trust him that he will render you the seed, and gather it into your barnfloor?
13 The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.
14 When she leaves her eggs on the earth, you perhaps will warm them in the dust.
15 She forgets that the foot may tread upon them, or that the beasts of the field may break them.
16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, she has laboured in vain, no fear constraining her.
17 For God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he given her understanding.
18 When time shall be, she sets up her wings on high: she scorns the horse and his rider.
19 will you give strength to the horse, or clothe his neck with neighing?
20 will you lift him up like the locusts? the glory of his nostrils is terror.
21 He breaks up the earth with his hoof, he prances boldly, he goes forward to meet armed men.
22 He despises fear, he turns not his back to the sword,
23 Above him shall the quiver rattle, the spear and shield shall glitter.
24 Chasing and raging he swallows the ground, neither does he make account when the noise of the trumpet sounds.
25 When he hears the trumpet he said: Ha, ha: he smells the battle afar off, the encouraging of the captains, and the shouting of the army.
26 does the hawk wax feathered by your wisdom, spreading her wings to the south?
27 Will the eagle mount up at your command, and make her nest in high places?
28 She abides among the rocks, and dwells among cragged flints, and stony hills, where there is no access.
29 From thence she looks for the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
30 Her young ones shall suck up blood: and wheresoever the carcass shall be, she is immediately there.
31 And the Lord went on, and said to Job:
32 Shall he that contends with God be so easily silenced? surely he that reproves God, ought to answer him.
33 Then Job answered the Lord, and said:
34 One thing I have spoken, which I wish I had not said: and another, to which I will add no more.