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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the deer in labor? |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Can you count the months they are pregnant so you can know the time they give birth? |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They crouch down to give birth to their young; they deliver their newborn. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Their offspring are healthy 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 its harness? |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6I made the desert its home, and the salty wasteland its dwelling. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7It scoffs at the noise of the village and never hears the shouts of a driver. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8It roams the mountains for its pastureland, searching for anything green. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Would the wild ox be willing to serve you? Would it spend the night by your feeding trough? |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Can you hold the wild ox to a furrow by its harness? Will it plow the valleys behind you? |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Can you depend on it because its strength is great? Would you leave it to do your hard work? |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Can you trust the wild ox to harvest your grain and bring it to your threshing floor? |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but are her feathers and plumage like the stork's? |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14She abandons her eggs on the ground and lets them be warmed in the sand. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15She forgets that a foot may crush them or that some wild animal may trample them. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16She treats her young harshly, as if they were not her own, with no fear that her labor may have been 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] | 18When 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? Do you adorn his neck with a mane? |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Do you make him leap like a locust? His proud snorting fills one with terror. |
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, since he is afraid of nothing; he does not run from the sword. |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23A quiver rattles at his side, along with a flashing spear and a javelin. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24He charges ahead with trembling rage; he cannot stand still at the trumpet's sound. |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25When the trumpet blasts, he snorts defiantly. He smells the battle from a distance; he hears the officers' shouts and the battle cry. |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread its wings to the south? |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Does the eagle soar at your command and make its nest on high? |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28It lives on a cliff where it spends the night; its stronghold is on a rocky crag. |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29From there it searches for prey; its eyes penetrate the distance. |
30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Its brood gulps down blood, and where the slain are, it is there. |
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