📖 Job 39
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Knowest thou the tyme when the wilde gotes brige forth their yoge amoge the stony rockes? Or layest thou wayte when the hindes vse to fawne?
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Rekenest thou the monethes after they ingendre, yt thou knowest the tyme of their bearinge?
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Or when they lye downe, when they cast their yonge ones, & when they are delyuered off their trauayle & payne?
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How their yoge ones growe vp & waxe greate thorow good fedinge?
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who letteth the wilde asse go fre, or who lowseth the bodes of the Moole?
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Vnto who I haue geuen the wyldernes to be their house, & the vntilled londe to be their dwellinge place.
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That they maye geue no force for the multitude off people in the cities, nether to regarde the crienge of the dryuer:
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but to seke their pasture aboute the moutaynes, & to folowe vpon the grene grasse.
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Wyll the vnicorne be so tame as to do ye seruyce, or to abyde still by thy cribbe?
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Cast thou bynde ye yock aboute him in thy forowes, to make him plowe after the in ye valleis?
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Mayest thou trust hi (because he is stroge) or comitte thy labor vnto hi?
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Mayest thou beleue hi, yt he wil brige home yi corne, or to cary eny thinge vnto yi barne?
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The Estrich (whose fethers are fayrer the ye wynges of the sparow hauke)
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whe he hath layed his egges vpon the grounde, he bredeth them in the dust,
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and forgetteth them: so that they might be troden with fete, or broken with somme wilde beast.
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So harde is he vnto his yong ones, as though they were not his, and laboureth in vayne without eny feare.
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And that because God hath taken wisdome from him, & hath not geuen him vnderstondinge.
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When his tyme is, he flyeth vp an hye, and careth nether for horse ner man.
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Hast thou geuen the horse is strength, or lerned him to bowe downe his neck with feare:
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that he letteth him self be dryuen forth like a greshopper, where as the stoute neyenge that he maketh, is fearfull?
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he breaketh ye grounde with the hoffes of his fete chearfully in his strength, and runneth to mete the harnest men.
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He layeth asyde all feare, his stomack is not abated, nether starteth he a back for eny swerde.
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Though the quyuers rattle vpon him, though the speare and shilde glistre:
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yet russheth he in fearsly, and beateth vpon the grounde. He feareth not the noyse of the trompettes,
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but as soone as he heareth the shawmes blowe, tush (sayeth he) for he smelleth the batell afarre of, ye noyse, the captaynes and the shoutinge.
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Commeth it thorow thy wysdome, that the goshauke flyeth towarde the south?
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Doth the Aegle mounte vp & make his nest on hye at thy commaundement?
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He abydeth in the stony rockes, ad vpon the hye toppes of harde mountaynes, where no man can come.
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From thence maye he beholde his praye, and loke farre aboute with his eyes.
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His yonge ones are fed with bloude, and where eny deed body lyeth, there is he immediatly.