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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn? |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth? |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They crouch down and bring forth their young; they deliver their newborn. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness? |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night? |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you? |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him? |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor? |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Do you give strength to the horse or adorn his neck with a mane? |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting? |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he charges into battle. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22He laughs at fear, frightened of nothing; he does not turn back from the sword. |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23A quiver rattles at his side, along with a flashing spear and lance. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Trembling with excitement, he devours the distance; he cannot stand still when the ram’s horn sounds. |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25At the blast of the horn, he snorts with fervor. He catches the scent of battle from afar—the shouts of captains and the cry of war. |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south? |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high? |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28He dwells on a cliff and lodges there; his stronghold is on a rocky crag. |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29From there he spies out food; his eyes see it from afar. |
30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30His young ones feast on blood; and where the slain are, there he is.” |
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