The LORD Speaks of His Creation

1Knowest thou the time whe the wylde goates bring foorth their young among the stonye rockes? or layest thou wayte when the hindes vse to calue?

2Canst thou number the monethes that they go with young? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth?

3They lye downe, they calue their young ones, and they are deliuered of their trauaile and paine:

4Yet their young ones grow vp, and waxe fatte through good feeding with corne: They go foorth, and returne not againe vnto them.

5Who letteth the wylde asse to go free? or who looseth the bondes of the wylde mule?

6Euen I which haue geuen the wyldernesse to be their house, and the vntilled land to be their dwelling.

7They force not for the multitude of people in the citie, neither regarde the crying of the driuer:

8But seeke their pasture about the mountaines, and folowe the greene grasse.

9Wyll the vnicorne do thee seruice, or abide still by thy cribbe?

10Canst thou binde the yoke about the vnicorne in the forowe, to make him plowe after thee in the valleyes?

11Mayst thou trust him because he is strong, or commit thy labour vnto him?

12Mayst thou beleue him that he wyll bring home thy corne, or carry any thing vnto thy barne?

13Gauest thou the faire winges vnto the pecockes, or winges and fethers vnto the Estriche?

14For she leaueth her egges in the earth, and heateth them in the dust.

15She remembreth not that they might be troden with feete, or broken with some wilde beaste.

16So harde is she vnto her young ones as though they were not hers, and laboureth in vaine without any feare.

17And that because God hath taken wysdome from her, & hath not geuen her vnderstanding.

18When her time is that she fleeth vp on hie, she careth neither for the horse nor the ryder.

19Hast thou geue the horse his strength, or learned him to ney coragiously?

20Canst thou make him afrayde as a grashopper? where as the stoute neying that he maketh is fearefull.

21He breaketh the grounde with the hooffes of his feete, he reioyceth cherefully in his strength, and runneth to meete the harnest men.

22He layeth aside all feare, his stomacke is not abated, neither starteth he backe for any sworde.

23Though the quiuers rattle vpon him, though the speare and shielde glister:

24Yet rusheth he in fiercely beating the grounde, he thinketh it not the noyse of the trumpettes:

25But when the trumpettes make most noyse, he saith, tushe, for he smelleth the battaile a farre of, the noyse of the captaines and the shouting.

26Commeth it through thy wysdome that the Goshauke flieth toward the south?

27Doth the Egle mount vp, and make his nest on hye at thy comaundement?

28He abydeth in stony rockes, and dwelleth vpon the hye toppes of moutaines:

29From whence he seeketh his praye, and loketh farre about with his eyes.

30His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where any dead body lyeth, there is he.