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"Do you know the time the mountain goats give birth? Do you keep watch over the calving of the deer? 

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Can you count the months they fulfill, Or do you know the time they give birth? 

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They kneel down; they bring forth their young; They send out their labor pains. 

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Their children become strong; they grow up in the open field; They leave and do not return to them. 

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"Who sent out the wild donkey free? And who loosed the bonds of the swift donkey, 

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For whom I have set the desert plain as a home And the salt land as his dwelling place? 

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He laughs at the tumult of the city; The shoutings of the driver he does not hear. 

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He explores the mountains for his pasture And searches after every green thing. 

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Will the wild ox consent to serve you, Or will he spend the night at your manger? 

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Can you bind the wild ox in a furrow with ropes, Or will he harrow the valleys after you? 

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Will you trust him because his power is great And leave your labor to him? 

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Will you believe him that he will return your seed _of grain_ And gather _it from_ your threshing floor? 

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"The ostriches' wings flap joyously _But_ are they the pinion and plumage of a stork? 

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For she leaves her eggs to the earth And warms them in the dust, 

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And she forgets that a foot may crush them, Or that a beast of the field may trample them. 

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She treats her children cruelly, as if _they_ were not hers; Though her labor be empty, _she_ is without dread, 

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Because God has made her forget wisdom, And has not given her a share of understanding. 

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When she raises herself up high, She laughs at the horse and his rider. 

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"Do you give the horse _his_ might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane? 

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Do you make him leap like the locust? His splendid snorting is terrible. 

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He paws in the valley and rejoices in _his_ power; He goes out to meet the weapons. 

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He laughs at dread and is not dismayed; And he does not turn back from the sword. 

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The quiver rattles against him, The flashing spear and javelin. 

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With shaking and rage he races over the ground, And he does not stand still at the sound of the trumpet. 

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As often as the trumpet _sounds_ he says, 'Aha!' And he scents the battle from afar, And the thunder of the commanders and the shout _of war_. 

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"Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars, Stretching his wings toward the south? 

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Is it at your command that the eagle goes on high And raises his nest high? 

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On the cliff he dwells and lodges, Upon the rocky crag, a fortress. 

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From there he spies out food; His eyes see _it_ from afar. 

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His young ones also suck up blood; And where the slain are, there is he."