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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/38.htm" title="Job 38">◄</a> Job 39 <a href="../job/40.htm" title="Job 40">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch22039" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn22039" class="cn"></h1> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v22039001" class="ver">1</span>Do you know when mountain goats are born,</p> <p class="sl1">or watch for the birth pangs of deer,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039002" class="ver">2</span>Number the months that they must fulfill,</p> <p class="sl1">or know when they give birth,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039003" class="ver">3</span>When they crouch down and drop their young,</p> <p class="sl1">when they deliver their progeny?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039004" class="ver">4</span>Their offspring thrive and grow in the open,</p> <p class="sl1">they leave and do not return.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039005" class="ver">5</span>Who has given the wild donkey his freedom,</p> <p class="sl1">and who has loosed the wild ass from bonds?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039006" class="ver">6</span>I have made the wilderness his home</p> <p class="sl1">and the salt flats his dwelling.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039007" class="ver">7</span>He scoffs at the uproar of the city,</p> <p class="sl1">hears no shouts of a driver.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039008" class="ver">8</span>He ranges the mountains for pasture,</p> <p class="sl1">and seeks out every patch of green.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039009" class="ver">9</span>Will the wild ox consent to serve you,</p> <p class="sl1">or pass the nights at your manger?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039010" class="ver">10</span>Will you bind the wild ox with a rope in the furrow,</p> <p class="sl1">and will he plow the valleys after you?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039011" class="ver">11</span>Will you depend on him for his great strength</p> <p class="sl1">and leave to him the fruits of your toil?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039012" class="ver">12</span>Can you rely on him to bring in your grain</p> <p class="sl1">and gather in the yield of your threshing floor?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039013" class="ver">13</span>The wings of the ostrich<a id="rfn22039013-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22039013-1">*</a> flap away;</p> <p class="sl1">her plumage is lacking in feathers.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039014" class="ver">14</span>When she abandons her eggs on the ground<a id="rfn22039014-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22039014-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">and lets them warm in the sand,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039015" class="ver">15</span>She forgets that a foot may crush them,</p> <p class="sl1">that the wild beasts may trample them;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039016" class="ver">16</span>She cruelly disowns her young</p> <p class="sl1">and her labor is useless; she has no fear.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039017" class="ver">17</span>For God has withheld wisdom from her</p> <p class="sl1">and given her no share in understanding.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039018" class="ver">18</span>Yet when she spreads her wings high,</p> <p class="sl1">she laughs at a horse and rider.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039019" class="ver">19</span>Do you give the horse his strength,<a id="rfn22039019-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22039019-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">and clothe his neck with a mane?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039020" class="ver">20</span>Do you make him quiver like a locust,</p> <p class="sl1">while his thunderous snorting spreads terror?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039021" class="ver">21</span>He paws the valley, he rejoices in his strength,</p> <p class="sl1">and charges into battle.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039022" class="ver">22</span>He laughs at fear and cannot be terrified;</p> <p class="sl1">he does not retreat from the sword.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039023" class="ver">23</span>Around him rattles the quiver,</p> <p class="sl1">flashes the spear and the javelin.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039024" class="ver">24</span>Frenzied and trembling he devours the ground;</p> <p class="sl1">he does not hold back at the sound of the trumpet;</p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v22039025" class="ver">25</span>at the trumpet’s call he cries, “Aha!”</p> <p class="sl">Even from afar he scents the battle,</p> <p class="sl1">the roar of the officers and the shouting.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039026" class="ver">26</span>Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars,</p> <p class="sl1">that he spreads his wings toward the south?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039027" class="ver">27</span>Does the eagle fly up at your command</p> <p class="sl1">to build his nest up high?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039028" class="ver">28</span>On a cliff he dwells and spends the night,</p> <p class="sl1">on the spur of cliff or fortress.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039029" class="ver">29</span>From there he watches for his food;</p> <p class="sl1">his eyes behold it afar off.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22039030" class="ver">30</span>His young ones greedily drink blood;</p> <p class="sl1">where the slain are, there is he.<a id="ren22039030-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22039030-a">a</a></p> </div> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, 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