Job 39

Thomson^{(i) 1} Hast thou known the time of the rock-goat's delivery, and watched the pangs of hinds in travail? ² Hast thou numbered the months they go with young, and hast thou dismissed their pangs? ³ Hast thou brought up their young, devoid of fear, and wilt thou dismiss their pangs also? ⁴ Shall they cast off their young, and be encreased with a new progeny, and shall they go forth and no more return to them? ⁵ Who hath sent forth the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bands? ⁶ As I made the desart his habitation, and the saltish soil his place of encampment; ⁷ he scorneth the crowds of a city, and regardeth not the clamours of a driver. ⁸ The range of mountains he will consider as his pasture, and he search eth after every thing green. ⁹ Will the unicorn condescend to serve thee, or to go to rest at thy stall? ¹⁰ Canst thou bind his yoke with thongs, or will he draw thy furrows in the field? ¹¹ Hast thou relied on him because his strength is great? ¹² Wilt thou leave thy labours to him, and trust that he will carry out thy seed, and bring home thy threshed grain? ¹³ Why is the wing of the ostrich that of the sportive? For though it comprehendeth that of the stork and falcon, ¹⁴ yet she will commit her eggs to the ground, and hatch them in the dust; ¹⁵ not remembering that the foot may crush, and wild beasts trample them. ¹⁶ She hardened herself against her young, as if not her's; she laboured in vain without fear; ¹⁷ because God had silenced wisdom in her. But did he not impart to her some understanding? ¹⁸ At a suitable occasion she will rear herself aloft; she will laugh to scorn the horse and his rider. ¹⁹ Hast thou invested the horse with strength, and clothed his neck with terror? ²⁰ When thou arrayedst him with armour didst thou inspire his dauntless breast with courage? ²¹ Pawing in the plain he swelleth with pride, and rusheth impetuous to the field. ²² Meeting a king he meeteth him with scorn, and turneth not back for fear of the sword. ²³ On him the bow and the sword swell with pride; and his rage will cause the ground to vanish, ²⁴ nor will he believe till the trumpet sounds: ²⁵ but at the sound of the trumpet he saith, Aha, and snuffeth the battle from afar, with a bound and neighing. ²⁶ Hath the hawk by thy wisdom poised herself aloft with wings expanded, unmoved, surveying the regions of the south? ²⁷ At thy command doth the eagle soar, and the vulture abide seated on its nest, ²⁸ on the high crag of a rock, and in secret, ²⁹ and continuing there seek its food? Its eyes take an extensive survey, ³⁰ and its young are besmeared with blood. Wherever carcasses are, there are they suddenly found.