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and who loosed his bands?<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, and the salt land his coverts.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He will survey the mountains <i>as</i> his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or to lie down at thy manger?<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And wilt thou bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plough furrows for thee in the plain?<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And dost thou trust him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou commit thy works to him?<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And wilt thou believe that he will return to thee thy seed, and bring <i>it</i> in <i>to</i> thy threshing-floor?<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The peacock has a beautiful wing: if the stork and the ostrich conceive, <i>it is worthy of notice</i>,<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>for <i>the ostrich</i> will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust,<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and has forgotten that the foot will scatter them, and the wild beasts of the field trample them.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>She has hardened <i>herself</i> against her young ones, as though <i>she bereaved</i> not herself: she labours in vain without fear.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For God has withholden wisdom from her, and not given her a portion in understanding.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>In her season she will lift herself on high; she will scorn the horse and his rider.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Hast thou invested the horse with strength, and clothed his neck with terror?<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And hast thou clad him in perfect armour, and made his breast glorious with courage?<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>He paws exulting in the plain, and goes forth in strength into the plain.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He laughs to scorn a king as he meets him, and will by no means turn back from the sword.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The bow and sword resound against him; and <i>his</i> rage will swallow up the ground:<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>and he will not believe until the trumpet sounds.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! and afar off he smells the war with prancing and neighing.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And does the hawk remain steady by thy wisdom, having spread out her wings unmoved, looking toward the region of the south?<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And does the eagle rise at thy command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest,<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>on a crag of a rock, and in a secret <i>place</i>?<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Thence he seeks food, his eyes observe from far.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/39-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And his young ones roll themselves in blood, and wherever the carcasses may be, immediately they are found.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/38.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 38"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 38" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/40.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 40"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 40" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>