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Job 39:1
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Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? dost thou mark the calving of the hinds?
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Job 39:2
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Dost thou number the months that they fulfil? and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
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Job 39:3
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They bow themselves, they give birth to their young ones, they cast out their pains;
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Job 39:4
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Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go forth, and return not unto them.
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Job 39:5
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Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager,
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Job 39:6
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Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?
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Job 39:7
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He laugheth at the tumult of the city, and heareth not the shouts of the driver;
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Job 39:8
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The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
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Job 39:9
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Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib?
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Job 39:10
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Canst thou bind the buffalo with his cord in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
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Job 39:11
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Wilt thou put confidence in him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
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Job 39:12
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Wilt thou trust him to bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor?
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Job 39:13
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The wing of the ostrich beats joyously -- But is it the stork's pinion and plumage?
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Job 39:14
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For she leaveth her eggs to the earth, and warmeth them in the dust,
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Job 39:15
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And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may trample them.
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Job 39:16
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She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern.
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Job 39:17
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For +God hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding.
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Job 39:18
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What time she lasheth herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
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Job 39:19
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Hast thou given strength to the horse? hast thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane?
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Job 39:20
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Dost thou make him to leap as a locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.
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Job 39:21
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He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in [his] strength; he goeth forth to meet the armed host.
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Job 39:22
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He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from before the sword.
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Job 39:23
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The quiver rattleth upon him, the glittering spear and the javelin.
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Job 39:24
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He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, and cannot contain himself at the sound of the trumpet:
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Job 39:25
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At the noise of the trumpets he saith, Aha! and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
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Job 39:26
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Doth the hawk fly by thine intelligence, [and] stretch his wings toward the south?
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Job 39:27
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Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make his nest on high?
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Job 39:28
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He inhabiteth the rock and maketh his dwelling on the point of the cliff, and the fastness:
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Job 39:29
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From thence he spieth out the prey, his eyes look into the distance;
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Job 39:30
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And his young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is he.
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