AB - Job - 39

39:1  Say if you know the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock, and if you have marked the calving of the hinds:

39:2  and if you have numbered the full months of their being with young, and if you have relieved their pangs:

39:3  and have reared their young without fear; and will you loosen their pangs?

39:4  Their young will break forth; they will be multiplied with offspring: their young will go forth, and will not return to them.

39:5  And who is he that sent forth the wild donkey free? And who loosed his bands?

39:6  Whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, and the salt land his coverts.

39:7  He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer.

39:8  He will survey the mountains as his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing.

39:9  And will the unicorn be willing to serve you, or to lie down at your manger?

39:10  And will you bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plow valleys for you in the plain?

39:11  And do you trust him, because his strength is great? And will you commit your works to him?

39:12  And will you believe that he will return to you your seed, and bring it in to your threshing floor?

39:13  The peacock has a beautiful wing: if the stork and the ostrich conceive, it is worthy of notice,

39:14  for the ostrich will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust,

39:15  and has forgotten that the foot will scatter them, and the wild beasts of the field trample them.

39:16  She has hardened herself against her young ones, as though she bereaved not herself: she labors in vain without fear.

39:17  For God has withheld wisdom from her, and not given her a portion in understanding.

39:18  In her season she will lift herself on high; she will scorn the horse and his rider.

39:19  Have you invested the horse with strength, and clothed his neck with terror?

39:20  And have you clad him in perfect armor, and made his breast glorious with courage?

39:21  He paws exulting in the plain, and goes forth in strength into the plain.

39:22  He laughs to scorn a king as he meets him, and will by no means turn back from the sword.

39:23  The bow and sword resound against him, and his rage will swallow up the ground;

39:24  and he will not believe until the trumpet sounds.

39:25  And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! And afar off, he smells the war with prancing and neighing.

39:26  And does the hawk remain steady by your wisdom, having spread out her wings unmoved, looking toward the region of the south?

39:27  And does the eagle rise at your command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest,

39:28  on a crag of a rock, and in a secret place?

39:29  From there he seeks food, his eyes observe from afar.

39:30  And his young ones roll themselves in blood, and wherever the carcasses may be, immediately they are found.