Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
trust
Psalm 20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember …
Psalm 33:16,17 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man …
Psalm 147:10 He delights not in the strength of the horse: he takes not pleasure …
Isaiah 30:16 But you said, No; for we will flee on horses; therefore shall you …
Isaiah 31:1-3 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and …
leave
Genesis 1:26,28 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and …
Genesis 9:2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast …
Genesis 42:26 And they laded their donkeys with the corn, and departed there.
Psalm 144:14 That our oxen may be strong to labor; that there be no breaking in, …
Proverbs 14:4 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the …
Isaiah 30:6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and …
Isaiah 46:1 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops, their idols were on the beasts, and on …
Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
peacocks
1 Kings 10:22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: …
2 Chronicles 9:21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: …
wings and feathers unto the. or, the feathers of the stork and
Job 30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
Leviticus 11:19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
Psalm 104:17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
Jeremiah 8:7 Yes, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times; and the turtle …
Zechariah 5:9 Then lifted I up my eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out …
Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
hardened
Lamentations 4:3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their …
as
Deuteronomy 28:56,57 The tender and delicate woman among you…
1 Kings 3:26,27 Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king, for …
2 Kings 6:28,29 And the king said to her, What ails you? And she answered, This woman …
Lamentations 2:20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom you have done this. Shall the …
Romans 1:31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, …
her labour
Ecclesiastes 10:15 The labor of the foolish wearies every one of them, because he knows …
Habakkuk 2:13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor …
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.
He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.
He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?
the hawk (Netz, Arabic naz, Latin nisus, the hawk, so called from natzah, to shoot away, fly, because of the rapidity of its flight. It probably comprehends various species of the falcon family, as the ger-falcon, goshawk, and sparrowhawk.)
Leviticus 16:11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for …
Deuteronomy 14:15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
stretch (Is it through thy teaching that the falcon, or any other bird of passage, knows the precise time for taking flight, and the direction in which she is to go to arrive at a warmer climate?)
Songs 2:12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds …
Jeremiah 8:7 Yes, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times; and the turtle …
Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.
