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¹ Do you know when mountain goats give birth?² Can you count the months they are pregnant^(F1)
so you can know the time they give birth?³ They crouch down to give birth to their young;
they deliver their newborn.^(F1)4 Their offspring are healthy and grow up in the open field.
They leave and do not return.^(F1)

⁵ Who set the wild donkey free?
Who released the swift donkey from its harness?⁶ I made the desert^(C1) its home,
and the salty^(C2) wasteland its dwelling.⁷ It scoffs at the noise of the village
and never hears the shouts of a driver.^(C1)8 It roams the mountains for its pastureland,
searching for anything green.⁹ Would the wild ox be willing to serve you?
Would it spend the night by your feeding trough?¹⁰ Can you hold the wild ox^(C1) to a furrow by its harness?
Will it plow the valleys behind you?¹¹ Can you depend on it because its strength is great?
Would you leave it to do your hard work?¹² Can you trust the wild ox to harvest your grain
and bring it to your threshing floor?

¹³ The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully,
but are her feathers and plumage like the stork’s?^(F1)(C1)14 She abandons her eggs on the ground
and lets them be warmed in the sand.¹⁵ She forgets that a foot may crush them
or that some wild animal may trample them.¹⁶ She treats her young harshly, as if they were not her own,
with no fear that her labor may have been in vain.¹⁷ For God has deprived her of wisdom;
he has not endowed her with understanding.^(C1)18 When she proudly^(F1) spreads her wings,
she laughs at the horse and its rider.

¹⁹ Do you give strength to the horse?
Do you adorn his neck with a mane?^(F1)20 Do you make him leap like a locust?
His proud snorting fills one with terror.²¹ He paws^(F1) in the valley and rejoices in his strength;
he charges into battle.^(F2)22 He laughs at fear, since he is afraid of nothing;
he does not run from the sword.²³ A quiver rattles at his side,
along with a flashing spear and a javelin.²⁴ He charges ahead^(F1) with trembling rage;
he cannot stand still at the trumpet’s sound.²⁵ When the trumpet blasts, he snorts defiantly.^(F1)
He smells the battle from a distance;
he hears the officers’ shouts and the battle cry.

²⁶ Does the hawk take flight by your understanding
and spread its wings to the south?²⁷ Does the eagle soar at your command
and make its nest^(C1) on high?²⁸ It lives on a cliff where it spends the night;
its stronghold is on a rocky crag.²⁹ From there it searches for prey;^(C1)
its eyes penetrate the distance.³⁰ Its brood gulps down blood,
and where the slain are, it is there.^(C1)