Job 39:1-18 ▼

1 (39:4) Knowest thou the time when the wilde goates bring foorth yong? or doest thou marke when the hindes doe calue?

2 (39:5) Canst thou nomber the moneths that they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth?

3 (39:6) They bow them selues: they bruise their yong and cast out their sorowes.

4 (39:7) Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them.

5 (39:8) Who hath set the wilde asse at libertie? or who hath loosed the bondes of the wilde asse?

6 (39:9) It is I which haue made the wildernesse his house, and the salt places his dwellings.

7 (39:10) He derideth the multitude of the citie: he heareth not the crie of the driuer.

8 (39:11) He seeketh out the mountaine for his pasture, and searcheth after euery greene thing.

9 (39:12) Will the vnicorne serue thee? or will he tary by thy cribbe?

10 (39:13) Canst thou binde the vnicorne with his band to labour in the furrowe? or will he plowe the valleyes after thee?

11 (39:14) Wilt thou trust in him, because his stregth is great, and cast off thy labour vnto him?

12 (39:15) Wilt thou beleeue him, that he will bring home thy seede, and gather it vnto thy barne?

13 (39:16) Hast thou giuen the pleasant wings vnto the peacockes? or winges and feathers vnto the ostriche?

14 (39:17) Which leaueth his egges in the earth, and maketh them hote in the dust,

15 (39:18) And forgetteth that the foote might scatter the, or that the wild beast might breake the.

16 (39:19) He sheweth himselfe cruell vnto his yong ones, as they were not his, and is without feare, as if he trauailed in vaine.

17 (39:20) For God had depriued him of wisedom, and hath giuen him no part of vnderstanding.

18 (39:21) When time is, he mounteth on hie: he mocketh the horse and his rider.