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\v 1 "Job, do you know at what time of the year the female mountain goats give birth?
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\q2 Have you watched the wild deer while their calves were being born?
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\v 2 Do you know how many months pass from the time they become pregnant until their calves are born?
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\v 3 When they give birth, they crouch down,
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\q2 and then their labor pangs are done.
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\v 4 The young calves grow up in the open fields,
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\q2 and then they leave their mothers and do not return to them again.
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\v 5 Who allows the wild donkeys to go wherever they want away from the cities?
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\v 6 I am the one who has freed them and put them in the desert plain,
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\q2 in places where grass does not grow.
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\v 7 They do not like the noise in the cities;
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\q2 in the desert they do not have to listen to the shouts of those who forced them to work.
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\v 8 They go over the hills to find food;
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\q2 there they search for grass to eat.
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\v 9 Will a wild ox agree to work for you?
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\q2 Will it allow you to keep it penned up at night in the place where you put feed for your animals?
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\v 10 Can you fasten a rope on it
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\q2 so that it will plow furrows in your fields, your fields in the valley?
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\v 11 Since it is very strong, can you for that reason trust it to work for you?
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\q2 Can you go away after you tell it what work it should do and assume that it will do that work?
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\v 12 Can you rely on it to come back from the field
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\q2 bringing your grain to the place where you thresh it?
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\v 13 Think also about the ostriches. They joyfully flap their wings,
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\q2 but they have no love for their own young.
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\v 14 Ostriches lay their eggs on top of the ground and then walk away,
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\q2 leaving the eggs to be warmed in the sand.
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\v 15 Ostriches never think about the possibility that some wild animal may step on the eggs and crush them.
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\v 16 Ostriches act cruelly toward their chicks;
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\q2 they act as though the chicks belonged to some other ostrich.
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\q1 They are not concerned if their chicks die,
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\q2 that they may have laid their eggs for nothing.
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\v 17 That is because I did not allow ostriches to be wise.
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\q2 I did not enable them to be intelligent.
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\v 18 However, when they get up and begin to run,
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\q2 they scornfully laugh at horses with their riders
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\q2 because the horses cannot run as fast as the ostriches!
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\v 19 Also, think about horses. Job, are you the one who made the horses to be strong?
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\q2 Are you the one who put flowing manes on their necks?
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\v 20 Are you the one who enabled them to leap forward like locusts?
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\q2 When they snort, they cause people to be afraid.
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\v 21 They paw the ground, rejoicing because they are very strong,
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\q2 as they prepare to rush into battle.
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\v 22 It is as if they were laughing at the thought of being afraid. They are not afraid of anything!
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\q2 They do not run away when the soldiers in the battle are fighting each other with swords.
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\v 23 The quivers containing the riders' arrows rattle against the horses' sides,
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\q2 and the spears and javelins flash in the light of the sun.
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\v 24 The horses run very quickly, and they speedily cover the ground;
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\q2 they rush into battle as soon as the trumpet is blown.
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\v 25 They neigh joyfully when they hear someone blowing the trumpet.
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\q2 They can smell a battle even when they are far away,
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\q2 and they understand what it means when the commanders shout their commands to their soldiers.
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\v 26 Think about big birds. Are you the one who enabled hawks to spread their wings
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\q2 and fly to the south for the winter?
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\v 27 Do eagles fly high up into the cliffs to make their nests
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\q2 because you commanded them to do that?
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\v 28 They live in holes in those cliffs.
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\q2 They are safe in those high pointed rocks because no animals can reach them there.
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\v 29 As they watch carefully from there,
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\q2 they see animals far away that they can kill.
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\v 30 After an eagle kills an animal,
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\q2 the baby eagles drink the blood of that animal;
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\q2 they gather wherever there are dead people lying on the ground."
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