Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
New Revised Standard NRS
1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth among the rocks, or hast thou observed the hinds when they fawn?
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"Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the deer?
2 Hast thou numbered the months of their conceiving, or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
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Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth,
3 They bow themselves to bring forth young, and they cast them, and send forth roarings.
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when they crouch to give birth to their offspring, and are delivered of their young?
4 Their young are weaned and go to feed: they go forth, and return not to them.
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Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth, and do not return to them.
5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bonds?
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"Who has let the wild ass go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,
6 To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land.
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to which I have given the steppe for its home, the salt land for its dwelling place?
7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, he heareth not the cry of the driver.
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It scorns the tumult of the city; it does not hear the shouts of the driver.
8 He looketh round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh for every green thing,
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It ranges the mountains as its pasture, and it searches after every green thing.
9 Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at thy crib?
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"Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will it spend the night at your crib?
10 Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with thy thong to plough, or will he break the clods of the valleys after thee?
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Can you tie it in the furrow with ropes, or will it harrow the valleys after you?
11 Wilt thou have confidence in his great strength, and leave thy labours to him?
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Will you depend on it because its strength is great, and will you hand over your labor to it?
12 Wilt thou trust him that he will render thee the seed, and gather it into thy barnfloor?
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Do you have faith in it that it will return, and bring your grain to your threshing floor?
13 The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.
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"The ostrich's wings flap wildly, though its pinions lack plumage.
14 When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust.
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For it leaves its eggs to the earth, and lets them be warmed on the ground,
15 She forgetteth that the foot may tread upon them, or that the beasts of the field may break them.
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forgetting that a foot may crush them, and that a wild animal may trample them.
16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her.
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It deals cruelly with its young, as if they were not its own; though its labor should be in vain, yet it has no fear;
17 For God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he given her understanding.
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because God has made it forget wisdom, and given it no share in understanding.
18 When time shall be, she setteth up her wings on high: she scorneth the horse and his rider.
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When it spreads its plumes aloft, it laughs at the horse and its rider.
19 Wilt thou give strength to the horse or clothe his neck with neighing?
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"Do you give the horse its might? Do you clothe its neck with mane?
20 Wilt thou lift him up like the locusts? the glory of his nostrils is terror.
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Do you make it leap like the locust? Its majestic snorting is terrible.
21 He breaketh up the earth with his hoof, he pranceth boldly, he goeth forward to meet armed men.
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It paws violently, exults mightily; it goes out to meet the weapons.
22 He despiseth fear, he turneth not his back to the sword.
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It laughs at fear, and is not dismayed; it does not turn back from the sword.
23 Above him shall the quiver rattle, the spear and shield shall glitter.
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Upon it rattle the quiver, the flashing spear, and the javelin.
24 Chasing and raging he swalloweth the ground, neither doth he make account when the noise of the trumpet soundeth.
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With fierceness and rage it swallows the ground; it cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
25 When he heareth the trumpet he saith: Ha, ha: he smelleth the battle afar off, the encouraging of the captains, and the shouting of the army.
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When the trumpet sounds, it says "Aha!' From a distance it smells the battle, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
26 Doth the hawk wax feathered by thy wisdom, spreading her wings to the south?
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"Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and spreads its wings toward the south?
27 Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest in high places?
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Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes its nest on high?
28 She abideth among the rocks, and dwelleth among cragged flints, and stony hills, where there is no access.
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It lives on the rock and makes its home in the fastness of the rocky crag.
29 From thence she looketh for the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
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From there it spies the prey; its eyes see it from far away.
30 Her young ones shall suck up blood: and wheresoever the carcass shall be, she is immediately there.
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Its young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there it is."
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