Job 39:1
Know you the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or can you mark when the hinds do calve?
Job 39:2
Can you number the months that they fulfill? or know you the time when they bring forth?
Job 39:3
They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
Job 39:4
Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not to them.
Job 39:5
Who has sent out the wild ass free? or who has loosed the bands of the wild ass?
Job 39:6
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
Job 39:7
He scorns the multitude of the city, neither regards he the crying of the driver.
Job 39:8
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
Job 39:9
Will the unicorn be willing to serve you, or abide by your crib?
Job 39:10
Can you bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after you?
Job 39:11
Will you trust him, because his strength is great? or will you leave your labor to him?
Job 39:12
Will you believe him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather it into your barn?
Job 39:13
Gave you the goodly wings to the peacocks? or wings and feathers to the ostrich?
Job 39:14
Which leaves her eggs in the earth, and warms them in dust,
Job 39:15
And forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
Job 39:16
She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: her labor is in vain without fear;
Job 39:17
Because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
Job 39:18
What time she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.
Job 39:19
Have you given the horse strength? have you clothed his neck with thunder?
Job 39:20
Can you make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.
Job 39:21
He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength: he goes on to meet the armed men.
Job 39:22
He mocks at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turns he back from the sword.
Job 39:23
The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the shield.
Job 39:24
He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believes he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
Job 39:25
He said among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Job 39:26
Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?
Job 39:27
Does the eagle mount up at your command, and make her nest on high?
Job 39:28
She dwells and stays on the rock, on the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
Job 39:29
From there she seeks the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
Job 39:30
Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.