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Job 39:1-13 New International Version Anglicized (NIVUK)

1. ‘Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?

2. Do you count the months till they bear?Do you know the time they give birth?

3. They crouch down and bring forth their young;their labour pains are ended.

4. Their young thrive and grow strong in the wilds;they leave and do not return.

5. ‘Who let the wild donkey go free?Who untied its ropes?

6. I gave it the wasteland as its home,the salt flats as its habitat.

7. It laughs at the commotion in the town;it does not hear a driver’s shout.

8. It ranges the hills for its pastureand searches for any green thing.

9. ‘Will the wild ox consent to serve you?Will it stay by your manger at night?

10. Can you hold it to the furrow with a harness?Will it till the valleys behind you?

11. Will you rely on it for its great strength?Will you leave your heavy work to it?

12. Can you trust it to haul in your grainand bring it to your threshing-floor?

13. ‘The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully,though they cannot comparewith the wings and feathers of the stork.

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