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title: Job 39
slug: kjv/job-39
createdAt: 2024-08-21T01:59:17.540Z
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**1 **Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? *or* canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

**2 **Canst thou number the months *that* they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

**3 **They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.

**4 **Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.

**5 **Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

**6 **Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

**7 **He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.

**8 **The range of the mountains *is* his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

**9 **Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?

**10 **Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

**11 **Wilt thou trust him, because his strength *is* great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

**12 **Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather *it into* thy barn?

**13 ***Gavest thou* the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

**14 **Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

**15 **And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.

**16 **She is hardened against her young ones, as though *they were* not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;

**17 **Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

**18 **What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

**19 **Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?

**20 **Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils *is* terrible.

**21 **He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in *his* strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.

**22 **He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.

**23 **The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.

**24 **He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that *it is* the sound of the trumpet.

**25 **He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

**26 **Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, *and* stretch her wings toward the south?

**27 **Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?

**28 **She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.

**29 **From thence she seeketh the prey, *and* her eyes behold afar off.

**30 **Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain *are*, there *is* she.