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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does? |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth, |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young? |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5“Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey, |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place? |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9“Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your manger? |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you? |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor? |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain and gather it to your threshing floor? |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love? |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For she leaves her eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground, |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear, |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19“Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane? |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrifying. |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21He paws in the valley and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22He laughs at fear and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword. |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear, and the javelin. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet. |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25When the trumpet sounds, he says ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26“Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south? |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high? |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28On the rock he dwells and makes his home, on the rocky crag and stronghold. |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29From there he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it from far away. |
30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30His young ones suck up blood, and where the slain are, there is he.” |
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