Job 39:1  "Do you know the month when mountain goats give birth? Have you ever watched a doe bear her fawn?

Job 39:2  Do you know how many months she is pregnant? Do you know the season of her delivery,

Job 39:3  when she crouches down and drops her offspring?

Job 39:4  Her young ones flourish and are soon on their own; they leave and don't come back.

Job 39:5  "Who do you think set the wild donkey free, opened the corral gates and let him go?

Job 39:6  I gave him the whole wilderness to roam in, the rolling plains and wide-open places.

Job 39:7  He laughs at his city cousins, who are harnessed and harried. He's oblivious to the cries of teamsters.

Job 39:8  He grazes freely through the hills, nibbling anything that's green.

Job 39:9  "Will the wild buffalo condescend to serve you, volunteer to spend the night in your barn?

Job 39:10  Can you imagine hitching your plow to a buffalo and getting him to till your fields?

Job 39:11  He's hugely strong, yes, but could you trust him, would you dare turn the job over to him?

Job 39:12  You wouldn't for a minute depend on him, would you, to do what you said when you said it?

Job 39:13  "The ostrich flaps her wings futilely-- all those beautiful feathers, but useless!

Job 39:14  She lays her eggs on the hard ground, leaves them there in the dirt, exposed to the weather,

Job 39:15  Not caring that they might get stepped on and cracked or trampled by some wild animal.

Job 39:16  She's negligent with her young, as if they weren't even hers. She cares nothing about anything.

Job 39:17  She wasn't created very smart, that's for sure, wasn't given her share of good sense.

Job 39:18  But when she runs, oh, how she runs, laughing, leaving horse and rider in the dust.

Job 39:19  "Are you the one who gave the horse his prowess and adorned him with a shimmering mane?

Job 39:20  Did you create him to prance proudly and strike terror with his royal snorts?

Job 39:21  He paws the ground fiercely, eager and spirited, then charges into the fray.

Job 39:22  He laughs at danger, fearless, doesn't shy away from the sword.

Job 39:23  The banging and clanging of quiver and lance don't faze him.

Job 39:24  He quivers with excitement, and at the trumpet blast races off at a gallop.

Job 39:25  At the sound of the trumpet he neighs mightily, smelling the excitement of battle from a long way off, catching the rolling thunder of the war cries.

Job 39:26  "Was it through your know how that the hawk learned to fly, soaring effortlessly on thermal updrafts?

Job 39:27  Did you command the eagle's flight, and teach her to build her nest in the heights,

Job 39:28  Perfectly at home on the high cliff-face, invulnerable on pinnacle and crag?

Job 39:29  From her perch she searches for prey, spies it at a great distance.

Job 39:30  Her young gorge themselves on carrion; wherever there's a roadkill, you'll see her circling."