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| [1]Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? |
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| [2]Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? |
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| [3]They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows. |
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| [4]Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. |
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| [5]Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? |
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| [6]Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. |
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| [7]He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. |
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| [8]The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. |
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| [9]Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? |
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| [10]Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? |
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| [11]Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? |
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| [12]Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? |
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| [13]Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? |
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| [14]Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, |
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| [15]And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. |
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| [16]She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: her labour is in vain without fear; |
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| [17]Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding. |
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| [18]What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider. |
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| [19]Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? |
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| [20]Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. |
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| [21]He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. |
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| [22]He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword. |
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| [23]The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. |
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| [24]He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. |
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| [25]He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. |
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| [26]Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south? |
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| [27]Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? |
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| [28]She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. |
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| [29]From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. |
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| [30]Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she. |
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