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Job 39
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International Standard Version
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"Do you know when the mountain goat gives birth? Do you watch the doe as it calves its young?
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Can you count the months of their gestation? Do you know the time when they give birth,
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when they crouch down to give birth to their offspring, and let go of their birth pangs?
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Their young are strong; they grow up in the open field; then they go off and don't return to them."
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"Who sets the wild donkey free? Who loosens the bonds of the wild donkey
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to whom I've given the Arabah for a home; the salt plain for his dwelling place?
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He despises city noises; he ignores the shouts of the driver.
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He ranges the mountains that are his pasture to search for anything green.
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Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he sleep at night near your feeding trough?
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Can you bind the ox to plow a furrow with a rope? Will he harrow after you in the valley?
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Will you trust him because of his great strength and entrust your labor to him?
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Will you trust him that he'll bring in your grain, and gather it to your threshing floor?"
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"The wings of the ostrich flap joyously, but aren't its pinions and feathers like the stork?
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She abandons her eggs on the ground and lets them be warmed in the sand,
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but she forgets that a foot might crush them or any wild animal might trample them.
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She mistreats her young as though they're not hers, and she has no fear that her labor may be in vain,
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because God didn't grant her wisdom and never gave her understanding.
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And yet when she gets ready to run, she laughs at the horse and its rider."
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Do you instill the horse with strength? Do you clothe its neck with a mane?
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Can you make him leap like the locust, and make the splendor of his snorting terrifying?
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He paws the ground in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he goes out to face weapons.
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He scoffs at fear and is never scared; he never retreats from a sword.
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A quiver of arrows rattles against his side, along with a flashing spear and a lance.
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Leaping in his excitement, he takes in the ground; he cannot stand still when the trumpets sound!
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When the trumpet blasts he'll neigh, 'Aha! Aha!' From a distance he can sense war, the war cry of generals, and their shouting."
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"Is it by your understanding that the hawk flies, spreading its wings toward the south?
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Does the eagle soar high at your command and build its nest on the highest crags?
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He dwells on the crags where he makes his home, there on the rocky crag is his stronghold.
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From there he searches for prey, and his eyes recognize it from a distance.
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His young ones feast on blood; he'll be found wherever there's a carcass."
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