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"Do you know when the mountain goats bring forth? Do you observe the calving of the hinds?
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Can you number the months that they fulfil, and do you know the time when they bring forth,
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when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young?
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Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth, and do not return to them.
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"Who has let the wild ass go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,
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to whom I have given the steppe for his home, and the salt land for his dwelling place?
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He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver.
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He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
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"Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your crib?
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Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?