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1 “Do you know when the wild goats give birth? Have you watched as deer are born in the wild?
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Do you know when mountain goats give birth; do you observe the birthing of does?
2 Do you know how many months they carry their young? Are you aware of the time of their delivery?
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Can you count the months of pregnancy; do you know when they give birth?
3 They crouch down to give birth to their young and deliver their offspring.
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They crouch, split open for their young, send forth their offspring.
4 Their young grow up in the open fields, then leave home and never return.
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Their young are healthy; they grow up in the open country, leave and never return.
5 “Who gives the wild donkey its freedom? Who untied its ropes?
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Who freed the wild donkey, loosed the ropes of the onager
6 I have placed it in the wilderness; its home is the wasteland.
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to whom I gave the desert as home, his dwelling place in the salt flats?
7 It hates the noise of the city and has no driver to shout at it.
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He laughs at the clamor of the town, doesn't hear the driver's shout,
8 The mountains are its pastureland, where it searches for every blade of grass.
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searches the hills for food and seeks any green sprout.
9 “Will the wild ox consent to being tamed? Will it spend the night in your stall?
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Will the wild ox agree to be your slave, or will it spend the night in your crib?
10 Can you hitch a wild ox to a plow? Will it plow a field for you?
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Can you bind it with a rope to a plowed row; will it plow the valley behind you?
11 Given its strength, can you trust it? Can you leave and trust the ox to do your work?
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Will you trust it because its strength is great so that you can leave your work to it?
12 Can you rely on it to bring home your grain and deliver it to your threshing floor?
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Can you rely on it to bring back your grain to gather into your threshing floor?
13 “The ostrich flaps her wings grandly, but they are no match for the feathers of the stork.
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The ostrich's wings flap joyously, but her wings and plumage are like a stork.
14 She lays her eggs on top of the earth, letting them be warmed in the dust.
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She leaves her eggs on the earth, lets them warm in the dust,
15 She doesn’t worry that a foot might crush them or a wild animal might destroy them.
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then forgets that a foot may crush them or a wild animal trample them.
16 She is harsh toward her young, as if they were not her own. She doesn’t care if they die.
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She treats her young harshly as if they were not hers, without worrying that her labor might be in vain;
17 For God has deprived her of wisdom. He has given her no understanding.
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God didn't endow her with sense, didn't give her some good sense.
18 But whenever she jumps up to run, she passes the swiftest horse with its rider.
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When she flaps her wings high, she laughs at horse and rider.
19 “Have you given the horse its strength or clothed its neck with a flowing mane?
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Did you give strength to the horse, clothe his neck with a mane,
20 Did you give it the ability to leap like a locust? Its majestic snorting is terrifying!
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cause him to leap like a locust, his majestic snorting, a fright?
21 It paws the earth and rejoices in its strength when it charges out to battle.
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He paws in the valley, prances proudly, charges at battle weapons,
22 It laughs at fear and is unafraid. It does not run from the sword.
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laughs at fear, unafraid. He doesn't turn away from the sword;
23 The arrows rattle against it, and the spear and javelin flash.
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a quiver of arrows flies by him, flashing spear and dagger.
24 It paws the ground fiercely and rushes forward into battle when the ram’s horn blows.
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Excitedly, trembling, he swallows the ground; can't stand still at a trumpet's blast.
25 It snorts at the sound of the horn. It senses the battle in the distance. It quivers at the captain’s commands and the noise of battle.
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At a trumpet's sound, he says, "Aha!" smells the battle from afar, hears officers' shouting and the battle cry.
26 “Is it your wisdom that makes the hawk soar and spread its wings toward the south?
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Is it due to your understanding that the hawk flies, spreading its wings to the south?
27 Is it at your command that the eagle rises to the heights to make its nest?
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Or at your command does the eagle soar, the vulture build a nest on high?
28 It lives on the cliffs, making its home on a distant, rocky crag.
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They dwell on an outcropping of rock, their fortress on rock's edge.
29 From there it hunts its prey, keeping watch with piercing eyes.
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From there they search for food; their eyes notice it from afar,
30 Its young gulp down blood. Where there’s a carcass, there you’ll find it.”
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and their young lap up blood; where carcasses lie, there they are.
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