Job 39

Bishops^{(i) 1} Knowest thou the time whe the wylde goates bring foorth their young among the stonye rockes? or layest thou wayte when the hindes vse to calue ² Canst thou number the monethes that they go with young? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth ³ They lye downe, they calue their young ones, and they are deliuered of their trauaile and paine ⁴ Yet their young ones grow vp, and waxe fatte through good feeding with corne: They go foorth, and returne not againe vnto them ⁵ Who letteth the wylde asse to go free? or who looseth the bondes of the wylde mule ⁶ Euen I which haue geuen the wyldernesse to be their house, and the vntilled land to be their dwelling ⁷ They force not for the multitude of people in the citie, neither regarde the crying of the driuer ⁸ But seeke their pasture about the mountaines, and folowe the greene grasse ⁹ Wyll the vnicorne do thee seruice, or abide still by thy cribbe ¹⁰ Canst thou binde the yoke about the vnicorne in the forowe, to make him plowe after thee in the valleyes ¹¹ Mayst thou trust him because he is strong, or commit thy labour vnto him ¹² Mayst thou beleue him that he wyll bring home thy corne, or carry any thing vnto thy barne ¹³ Gauest thou the faire winges vnto the pecockes, or winges and fethers vnto the Estriche ¹⁴ For she leaueth her egges in the earth, and heateth them in the dust ¹⁵ She remembreth not that they might be troden with feete, or broken with some wilde beaste ¹⁶ So harde is she vnto her young ones as though they were not hers, and laboureth in vaine without any feare ¹⁷ And that because God hath taken wysdome from her, & hath not geuen her vnderstanding ¹⁸ When her time is that she fleeth vp on hie, she careth neither for the horse nor the ryder ¹⁹ Hast thou geue the horse his strength, or learned him to ney coragiously ²⁰ Canst thou make him afrayde as a grashopper? where as the stoute neying that he maketh is fearefull ²¹ He breaketh the grounde with the hooffes of his feete, he reioyceth cherefully in his strength, and runneth to meete the harnest men ²² He layeth aside all feare, his stomacke is not abated, neither starteth he backe for any sworde ²³ Though the quiuers rattle vpon him, though the speare and shielde glister ²⁴ Yet rusheth he in fiercely beating the grounde, he thinketh it not the noyse of the trumpettes ²⁵ But when the trumpettes make most noyse, he saith, tushe, for he smelleth the battaile a farre of, the noyse of the captaines and the shouting ²⁶ Commeth it through thy wysdome that the Goshauke flieth toward the south ²⁷ Doth the Egle mount vp, and make his nest on hye at thy comaundement ²⁸ He abydeth in stony rockes, and dwelleth vpon the hye toppes of moutaines ²⁹ From whence he seeketh his praye, and loketh farre about with his eyes ³⁰ His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where any dead body lyeth, there is he