Verse 1
(39:4) Knowest thou the time when the wilde goates bring foorth yong? or doest thou marke when the hindes doe calue?
Verse 2
(39:5) Canst thou nomber the moneths that they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth?
Verse 3
(39:6) They bow them selues: they bruise their yong and cast out their sorowes.
Verse 4
(39:7) Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them.
Verse 5
(39:8) Who hath set the wilde asse at libertie? or who hath loosed the bondes of the wilde asse?
Verse 6
(39:9) It is I which haue made the wildernesse his house, and the salt places his dwellings.
Verse 7
(39:10) He derideth the multitude of the citie: he heareth not the crie of the driuer.
Verse 8
(39:11) He seeketh out the mountaine for his pasture, and searcheth after euery greene thing.
Verse 9
(39:12) Will the vnicorne serue thee? or will he tary by thy cribbe?
Verse 10
(39:13) Canst thou binde the vnicorne with his band to labour in the furrowe? or will he plowe the valleyes after thee?
Verse 11
(39:14) Wilt thou trust in him, because his stregth is great, and cast off thy labour vnto him?
Verse 12
(39:15) Wilt thou beleeue him, that he will bring home thy seede, and gather it vnto thy barne?
Verse 13
(39:16) Hast thou giuen the pleasant wings vnto the peacockes? or winges and feathers vnto the ostriche?
Verse 14
(39:17) Which leaueth his egges in the earth, and maketh them hote in the dust,
Verse 15
(39:18) And forgetteth that the foote might scatter the, or that the wild beast might breake the.
Verse 16
(39:19) He sheweth himselfe cruell vnto his yong ones, as they were not his, and is without feare, as if he trauailed in vaine.
Verse 17
(39:20) For God had depriued him of wisedom, and hath giuen him no part of vnderstanding.
Verse 18
(39:21) When time is, he mounteth on hie: he mocketh the horse and his rider.
Verse 19
(39:22) Hast thou giuen the horse strength? or couered his necke with neying?
Verse 20
(39:23) Hast thou made him afraid as the grashopper? his strong neying is fearefull.
Verse 21
(39:24) He diggeth in the valley, and reioyceth in his strength: he goeth foorth to meete the harnest man.
Verse 22
(39:25) He mocketh at feare, and is not afraid, and turneth not backe from the sworde,
Verse 23
(39:26) Though the quiuer rattle against him, the glittering speare and the shield.
Verse 24
(39:27) He swalloweth the ground for fearcenes and rage, and he beleeueth not that it is the noise of the trumpet.
Verse 25
(39:28) He sayth among the trumpets, Ha, ha: hee smelleth the battell afarre off, and the noyse of the captaines, and the shouting.
Verse 26
(39:29) Shall the hauke flie by thy wisedome, stretching out his wings toward the South?
Verse 27
(39:30) Doeth the egle mount vp at thy commandement, or make his nest on hie?
Verse 28
(39:31) Shee abideth and remaineth in the rocke, euen vpon the toppe of the rocke, and the tower.
Verse 29
(39:32) From thence she spieth for meate, and her eyes beholde afarre off.
Verse 30
(39:33) His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where the slaine are, there is she.