“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Psa 29:91Sa 24:2Psa 104:18Deu 14:5Jer 14:5
Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
Can you count the months that they fulfill? Jer 2:24
Or do you know the time when they give birth?
They bow themselves. They bear their young.
They end their labor pains.
Their young ones become strong.
They grow up in the open field.
They go out, and don’t return again.
“Who has set the wild donkey free? Job 11:12Job 24:5Job 6:5Psa 104:11Dan 5:21Gen 16:12Gen 49:14Hos 8:9
Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
whose home I have made the wilderness, Psa 107:34Deu 29:23Jer 17:6Jer 2:24Job 24:5Ezk 47:11Hos 8:9
and the salt land his dwelling place?
He scorns the tumult of the city, Exo 5:18Job 3:18Exo 5:13-16Isa 31:4Isa 58:3Job 39:18
neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.
The range of the mountains is his pasture. Psa 104:27-28Psa 145:15-16Gen 1:29-30Job 40:15Job 40:20-22
He searches after every green thing.
“Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Num 23:22Deu 33:17Psa 92:10Psa 22:21Isa 1:3
Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Hos 10:10-11Job 1:14Job 39:5Job 39:7Job 41:5Mic 1:13Psa 129:3
Or will he till the valleys after you?
Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Gen 1:26Gen 1:28Gen 42:26Gen 9:2Isa 30:16Isa 30:6Isa 31:1-3Pro 14:4
Or will you leave to him your labor?
Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, Amo 2:13Hag 2:19Mat 13:30Mat 3:2Neh 13:15Pro 3:16
and gather the grain of your threshing floor?
“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, Jer 8:7Zec 5:91Ki 10:222Ch 9:21Job 30:29Lev 11:19Psa 104:17
but are they the feathers and plumage of love?
For she leaves her eggs on the earth,
warms them in the dust,
and forgets that the foot may crush them,
or that the wild animal may trample them.
She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Lam 4:31Ki 3:26-272Ki 6:28-29Deu 28:56-57Ecc 10:15Hab 2:13Lam 2:20Rom 1:31
Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
because God has deprived her of wisdom, Job 35:112Ch 32:31Deu 2:30Isa 19:11-14Isa 57:17Jas 1:17Job 17:4
neither has he imparted to her understanding.
When she lifts up herself on high, 2Ki 19:21Job 39:22Job 39:7Job 41:29Job 5:22
she scorns the horse and his rider.
“Have you given the horse might? Psa 104:1Psa 147:10Psa 93:1Exo 15:1Job 39:25Mrk 3:17
Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?
Have you made him to leap as a locust? Jer 8:16Job 41:20-21Jol 2:5
The glory of his snorting is awesome.
He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. Jer 8:61Sa 17:4-101Sa 17:42Jdg 5:22Jer 9:23Pro 21:31Psa 19:5
He goes out to meet the armed men.
He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, Job 39:16Job 39:18Job 41:33
neither does he turn back from the sword.
The quiver rattles against him, Job 41:26-29
the flashing spear and the javelin.
He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, Amo 3:6Jer 4:19Job 29:24Job 37:20Job 9:16Luk 24:41Hab 1:8-9
neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’ Ezk 26:2Ezk 36:2Psa 70:3
He smells the battle afar off,
the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, Deu 14:15Jer 8:7Lev 16:11Sng 2:12
and stretches her wings toward the south?
Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, Jer 49:16Oba 1:4Exo 19:4Hos 8:1Isa 40:31Lev 11:13Pro 23:5Psa 103:5
and makes his nest on high?
On the cliff he dwells and makes his home, 1Sa 14:4
on the point of the cliff and the stronghold.
From there he spies out the prey. Job 9:26
His eyes see it afar off.
His young ones also suck up blood. Mat 24:28Luk 17:37Ezk 39:17-19
Where the slain are, there he is.”