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- Knowest thou the time when the wild goates of the rocke bring forth?
or canst thou marke when the hindes doe calue?
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- Canst thou number the moneths that they fulfill?
or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
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- They bowe themselues, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrowes.
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- Their yong ones are in good liking, they grow vp with corne: they go forth, and returne not vnto them.
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- Who hath sent out the wild asse free?
or who hath looosed the bands of the wild asse?
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- Whose house I haue made the wildernesse, and the barren lande his dwellings.
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- He scorneth the multitude of the citie, neither regardeth he the crying of the driuer.
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- The range of the mountaines is his pasture, and hee searcheth after euery greene thing.
- 9
- Will the Unicorne be willing to serue thee?
or abide by thy cribbe?
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- Canst thou binde the Unicorne with his band in the furrow?
or will he harrow the valleyes after thee?
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- Wilt thou trust him because his strength is great?
or wilt thou leaue thy labour to him?
- 12
- Wilt thou beleeue him that hee will bring home thy seed?
and gather it into thy barne?
- 13
- Gauest thou the goodly wings vnto the peacocks, or wings and feathers vnto the Ostrich?
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- Which leaueth her egges in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
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- And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wilde beast may breake them.
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- She is hardened against her yong ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vaine without feare.
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- Because God hath depriued her of wisedome, neither hath he imparted to her vnderstanding.
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- What time she lifteth vp her selfe on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
- 19
- Hast thou giuen the horse strength?
hast thou clothed his necke with thunder?
- 20
- Canst thou make him afraid as a grashopper?
the glory of his nostrils is terrible.
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- He paweth in the valley, and reioyceth in his strength: hee goeth on to meet the armed men.
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- He mocketh at feare, and is not affrighted: neither turneth he backe from the sword.
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- The quiuer ratleth against him, the glittering speare and the shield.
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- He swalloweth the ground with fiercenesse and rage: neither beleeueth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
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- Hee saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha: and he smelleth the battaile afarre off, the thunder of the captaines, and the shouting.
- 26
- Doeth the hawke flie by thy wisedome, and stretch her wings toward the South?
- 27
- Doeth the Eagle mount vp at thy commaund?
and make her nest on high?
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- She dwelleth and abideth on the rocke, vpon the cragge of the rocke, and the strong place.
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- From thence she seeketh the pray, and her eyes behold a farre off.
- 30
- Her yong ones also suck vp blood: and where the slaine are, there is he.
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