The LORD Speaks of His Creation

1Knewest thou the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock? and wilt thou watch the bearing of the hinds?

2Wilt thou number the months they shall fill up? and didst thou know the time of their bringing forth?

3They will bow, they will bring forth their children, they will cast forth their pains.

4Their sons will be fat, they will increase with grain; they will go forth and not turn back to them.

5Who sent the wild ass free? and who opened the bonds of the wild ass?

6To whom did I set the desert his house, and the salt land his dwellings?

7He will laugh at the multitude of the city; he will not hear the noise of him driving.

8The searching out of the mountains his pasture, and he will seek after every green thing.

9Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy stall?

10Wilt thou bind the buffalo in the furrow with cords, or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

11Wilt thou trust in him because great his strength? and wilt thou leave to him thy labor?

12Wilt thou believe in him that he will turn back thy seed and gather to thy threshing-floor?

13The wings of ostriches exulted; and the wing-feather of the stork and the pinion.

14For she will leave her eggs to the earth, and she will warm them in the dust;

15And she will forget that the foot will press it, and the beast of the field will crush it.

16She made hard to her sons as not to her: her labor in vain without fear;

17For God caused her to forget wisdom, and he divided not to her in understanding.

18For the time she will lash herself up upon height, she will laugh at the horse and at his rider.

19Wilt thou give strength to the horse? wilt thou clothe his neck with thunder?

20Wilt thou cause him to tremble as the locust? the glory of his snorting is terror.

21They will dig in the valley, and he will rejoice in strength: he will go forth to the meeting of the weapon.

22He will laugh at fear, and he will not be dismayed; and he will not turn back from the face of the sword.

23The quiver will give forth a whizzing against him, the flame of the spear and the javelin.

24With leaping and rage he will swallow the earth; and he will not believe that it is the voice of the trumpet.

25He will say according to the multitude of the trumpet, Aha! and he will smell the battle from far off, the thunder of the chiefs, and the war cry.

26From thy understanding will the hawk mount upwards? will it stretch its wings to the south?

27If at thy mouth the eagle will lift itself up, and if it will raise up its nest?

28She will dwell in the rock, and she will lodge upon the cliff of the rock and the fortress.

29From thence it sought food; far off shall its eyes behold.

30Her young shall suck up the blood: and where the wounded, there is she.