Hiob 39

1. ¹Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? dost thou mark the calving of the hinds?
2. ²Dost thou number the months that they fulfil? and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
3. ³They bow themselves, they give birth to their young ones, they cast out their pains;
4. ⁴Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go forth, and return not unto them.
5. ⁵Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager,
6. ⁶Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?
7. ⁷He laugheth at the tumult of the city, and heareth not the shouts of the driver;
8. ⁸The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
9. ⁹Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib?
10. ¹⁰Canst thou bind the buffalo with his cord in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
11. ¹¹Wilt thou put confidence in him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
12. ¹²Wilt thou trust him to bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor?
13. ¹³The wing of the ostrich beats joyously -- But is it the stork's pinion and plumage?
14. ¹⁴For she leaveth her eggs to the earth, and warmeth them in the dust,
15. ¹⁵And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may trample them.
16. ¹⁶She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern.
17. ¹⁷For +God hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding.
18. ¹⁸What time she lasheth herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
19. ¹⁹Hast thou given strength to the horse? hast thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane?
20. ²⁰Dost thou make him to leap as a locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.
21. ²¹He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in [ergänzt: his] strength; he goeth forth to meet the armed host.
22. ²²He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from before the sword.
23. ²³The quiver rattleth upon him, the glittering spear and the javelin.
24. ²⁴He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, and cannot contain himself at the sound of the trumpet:
25. ²⁵At the noise of the trumpets he saith, Aha! and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
26. ²⁶Doth the hawk fly by thine intelligence, [ergänzt: and] stretch his wings toward the south?
27. ²⁷Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make his nest on high?
28. ²⁸He inhabiteth the rock and maketh his dwelling on the point of the cliff, and the fastness:
29. ²⁹From thence he spieth out the prey, his eyes look into the distance;
30. ³⁰And his young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is he.

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