1 Do you know when mountain goats are born?
Have you watched wild deer give birth?
2 Do you know how long they carry their young?
Do you know the time for their birth?
3 Do you know when they will crouch down
and bring their young into the world?
4 In the wilds their young grow strong;
they go away and don't come back.
5 Who gave the wild donkeys their freedom?
Who turned them loose and let them roam?
6 I gave them the desert to be their home,
and let them live on the salt plains.
7 They keep far away from the noisy cities,
and no one can tame them and make them work.
8 The mountains are the pastures where they feed,
where they search for anything green to eat.
9 Will a wild ox work for you?
Is he willing to spend the night in your stable?
10 Can you hold one with a rope and make him plow?
Or make him pull a harrow in your fields?
11 Can you rely on his great strength
and expect him to do your heavy work?
12 Do you expect him to bring in your harvest
and gather the grain from your threshing place?
13 How fast the wings of an ostrich beat!
But no ostrich can fly like a stork.
14 The ostrich leaves her eggs on the ground
for the heat in the soil to warm them.
15 She is unaware that a foot may crush them
or a wild animal break them.
16 She acts as if the eggs were not hers,
and is unconcerned that her efforts were wasted.
17 It was I who made her foolish
and did not give her wisdom.
18 But when she begins to run,
she can laugh at any horse and rider.
19 Was it you, Job, who made horses so strong
and gave them their flowing manes?
20 Did you make them leap like locusts
and frighten people with their snorting?
21 They eagerly paw the ground in the valley;
they rush into battle with all their strength.
22 They do not know the meaning of fear,
and no sword can turn them back.
23 The weapons which their riders carry
rattle and flash in the sun.
24 Trembling with excitement, the horses race ahead;
when the trumpet blows, they can't stand still.
25 At each blast of the trumpet they snort;
they can smell a battle before they get near,
and they hear the officers shouting commands.
26 Does a hawk learn from you how to fly
when it spreads its wings toward the south?
27 Does an eagle wait for your command
to build its nest high in the mountains?
28 It makes its home on the highest rocks
and makes the sharp peaks its fortress.
29 From there it watches near and far
for something to kill and eat.
30 Around dead bodies the eagles gather,
and the young eagles drink the blood.
1 Wilt thou hunt the pray for the lyon? or fill the appetite of the lyons whelpes, 2 When they couch in their places, and remaine in the couert to lye in waite? 3 Who prepareth for the rauen his meate, when his birdes crie vnto God, wandering for lacke of meate? 4 Knowest thou the time when the wilde goates bring foorth yong? or doest thou marke when the hindes doe calue? 5 Canst thou nomber the moneths that they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth? 6 They bow them selues: they bruise their yong and cast out their sorowes. 7 Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them. 8 Who hath set the wilde asse at libertie? or who hath loosed the bondes of the wilde asse? 9 It is I which haue made the wildernesse his house, and the salt places his dwellings. 10 He derideth the multitude of the citie: he heareth not the crie of the driuer. 11 He seeketh out the mountaine for his pasture, and searcheth after euery greene thing. 12 Will the vnicorne serue thee? or will he tary by thy cribbe? 13 Canst thou binde the vnicorne with his band to labour in the furrowe? or will he plowe the valleyes after thee? 14 Wilt thou trust in him, because his strength is great, and cast off thy labour vnto him? 15 Wilt thou beleeue him, that he will bring home thy seede, and gather it vnto thy barne? 16 Hast thou giuen the pleasant wings vnto the peacockes? or winges and feathers vnto the ostriche? 17 Which leaueth his egges in the earth, and maketh them hote in the dust, 18 And forgetteth that the foote might scatter the, or that the wild beast might breake the. 19 He sheweth himselfe cruell vnto his yong ones, as they were not his, and is without feare, as if he trauailed in vaine. 20 For God had depriued him of wisedom, and hath giuen him no part of vnderstanding. 21 When time is, he mounteth on hie: he mocketh the horse and his rider. 22 Hast thou giuen the horse strength? or couered his necke with neying? 23 Hast thou made him afraid as the grashopper? his strong neying is fearefull. 24 He diggeth in the valley, and reioyceth in his strength: he goeth foorth to meete the harnest man. 25 He mocketh at feare, and is not afraid, and turneth not backe from the sworde, 26 Though the quiuer rattle against him, the glittering speare and the shield. 27 He swalloweth the ground for fearcenes and rage, and he beleeueth not that it is the noise of the trumpet. 28 He sayth among the trumpets, Ha, ha: hee smellleth the battell afarre off, and the noyse of the captaines, and the shouting. 29 Shall the hauke flie by thy wisedome, stretching out his wings toward the South? 30 Doeth the eagle mount vp at thy commandement, or make his nest on hie? 31 Shee abideth and remaineth in the rocke, euen vpon the toppe of the rocke, and the tower. 32 From thence she spieth for meate, and her eyes beholde afarre off. 33 His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where the slaine are, there is she. 34 Moreouer ye Lord spake vnto Iob, and said, 35 Is this to learne to striue with the Almightie? he that reprooueth God, let him answere to it. 36 Then Iob answered the Lord, saying, 37 Beholde, I am vile: what shall I answere thee? I will lay mine hand vpon my mouth. 38 Once haue I spoken, but I will answere no more, yea twise, but I will proceede no further.