Job 39)
1 Know you the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or can you mark when the hinds do calve?
2 Can you number the months that they fulfill? or know you 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 in the open field; they go forth, and return not to them.
5 Who has sent out the wild mule free? or who has loosed the bands of the wild mule?
6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
7 He scorns the multitude of the city, neither regards he the crying of the driver.
8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
9 Will the unicorn be willing to serve you, or abide by your crib?
10 Can you bind the wild bull with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after you?
11 Will you confide in him, because his strength is great? or will you leave your labor to him?
12 Will you believe him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather it into your barn?
13 Gave you the goodly wings to the peacocks? or wings and feathers to the ostrich?
14 Which leaves her eggs in the earth, and warms them in dust,
15 And forget 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 her's: her labor is in vain without fear;
17 Because GOD (Eloah) has deprived her of wisdom, neither has He imparted to her understanding.
18 What time she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.
19 Have you given the horse strength? have you clothed his neck with rustling mane?
20 Can you make him leap as a locust? the glory of his snorting is terrible.
21 He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength: he goes on to meet the armed men.
22 He mocks at fear, and is not frighted; neither turns he back from the sword.
23 The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the shield.
24 He swallow the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believes he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
25 He say among the trumpets, 'Ha, ha;' and he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
26 Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, and stretch his wings toward the south?
27 Does the eagle mount up at your command, and make his nest on high?
28 He dwells and abides on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
29 From there he seeks the prey, and his eyes behold afar off.
30 His young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is he." (I.e on a field of battle. Cp. Matt. 24:28. Luke 17:37.)