Job 39:1-15 ▼

1 Say if thou knowest the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock, and if thou hast marked the calving of the hinds:

2 and if thou has hast numbered the full months of their being with young, and if thou hast relieved their pangs:

3 and hast reared their young without fear; and wilt thou loosen their pangs?

4 Their young will break forth; they will be multiplied with offspring: their young will go forth, and will not return to them.

5 And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? and who loosed his bands?

6 whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, and the salt land his coverts.

7 He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer.

8 He will survey the mountains as his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing.

9 And will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or to lie down at thy manger?

10 And wilt thou bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plough furrows for thee in the plain?

11 And dost thou trust him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou commit thy works to him?

12 And wilt thou believe that he will return to thee thy seed, and bring it in to thy threshing-floor?

13 The peacock has a beautiful wing: if the stork and the ostrich conceive, it is worthy of notice ,

14 for the ostrich will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust,

15 and has forgotten that the foot will scatter them, and the wild beasts of the field trample them.