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fulfill,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and do you know the time when they give birth,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>when they crouch to give birth to their offspring,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and are delivered of their young?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they go forth, and do not return to them.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>“Who has let the wild ass go free?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>to which I have given the steppe for its home,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the salt land for its dwelling place?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>It scorns the tumult of the city;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">it does not hear the shouts of the driver.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>It ranges the mountains as its pasture,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and it searches after every green thing.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>“Is the wild ox willing to serve you?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Will it spend the night at your crib?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Can you tie it in the furrow with ropes,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or will it harrow the valleys after you?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Will you depend on it because its strength is great,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and will you hand over your labor to it?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Do you have faith in it that it will return,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and bring your grain to your threshing floor?<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15917a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>“The ostrich’s wings flap wildly,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">though its pinions lack plumage.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15918b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>For it leaves its eggs to the earth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and lets them be warmed on the ground,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>forgetting that a foot may crush them,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and that a wild animal may trample them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>It deals cruelly with its young, as if they were not its own;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">though its labor should be in vain, yet it has no fear;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>because God has made it forget wisdom,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and given it no share in understanding.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>When it spreads its plumes aloft,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15923c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">it laughs at the horse and its rider.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>“Do you give the horse its might?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Do you clothe its neck with mane?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Do you make it leap like the locust?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Its majestic snorting is terrible.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>It paws<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15926d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> violently, exults mightily;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">it goes out to meet the weapons.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>It laughs at fear, and is not dismayed;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">it does not turn back from the sword.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Upon it rattle the quiver,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the flashing spear, and the javelin.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>With fierceness and rage it swallows the ground;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">it cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>When the trumpet sounds, it says ‘Aha!’</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">From a distance it smells the battle,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and spreads its wings toward the south?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and makes its nest on high?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>It lives on the rock and makes its home</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">in the fastness of the rocky crag.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>From there it spies the prey;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">its eyes see it from far away.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>Its young ones suck up blood;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and where the slain are, there it is.”</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 39:12">Job 39:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>your grain and your threshing floor</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 39:13">Job 39:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 39:18">Job 39:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 39:21">Job 39:21</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr Vg: Heb <i>they dig</i></span></li></ol></div> 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