geneva@Job:39:1 @ {\cf2 (39:4)} Knowest thou the time when the wilde goates bring foorth yong? or doest thou marke when the hindes doe calue?
geneva@Job:39:2 @ Canst thou number the months [that] they (note:)That is, how long they go with young?(:note) fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
geneva@Job:39:3 @ They bow themselves, they (note:)They bring forth with great difficulty.(:note) bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
geneva@Job:39:4 @ {\cf2 (39:7)} Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them.
geneva@Job:39:5 @ {\cf2 (39:8)} Who hath set the wilde asse at libertie? or who hath loosed the bondes of the wilde asse?
geneva@Job:39:6 @ Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the (note:)That is, the barren ground where no good fruit grows.(:note) barren land his dwellings.
geneva@Job:39:7 @ {\cf2 (39:10)} He derideth the multitude of the citie: he heareth not the crie of the driuer.
geneva@Job:39:8 @ {\cf2 (39:11)} He seeketh out the mountaine for his pasture, and searcheth after euery greene thing.
geneva@Job:39:9 @ Will the unicorn be willing to (note:)Is it possible to make the unicorn tame? signifying that if man cannot rule a creature, that it is much more impossible that he should appoint the wisdom of God, by which he governs all the world.(:note) serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
geneva@Job:39:10 @ {\cf2 (39:13)} Canst thou binde the vnicorne with his band to labour in the furrowe? or will he plowe the valleyes after thee?
geneva@Job:39:11 @ {\cf2 (39:14)} Wilt thou trust in him, because his stregth is great, and cast off thy labour vnto him?
geneva@Job:39:12 @ {\cf2 (39:15)} Wilt thou beleeue him, that he will bring home thy seede, and gather it vnto thy barne?
geneva@Job:39:13 @ {\cf2 (39:16)} Hast thou giuen the pleasant wings vnto the peacockes? or winges and feathers vnto the ostriche?
geneva@Job:39:14 @ Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and (note:)They write that the ostrich covers her eggs in the sand, and because the country is hot and the sun still keeps them warm, they are hatched.(:note) warmeth them in dust,
geneva@Job:39:15 @ {\cf2 (39:18)} And forgetteth that the foote might scatter the, or that the wild beast might breake the.
geneva@Job:39:16 @ She is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers: her labour is (note:)If he should take care of them.(:note) in vain without fear;
geneva@Job:39:17 @ Because God hath deprived her of (note:)That is, to have a care and natural affection toward his young.(:note) wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
geneva@Job:39:18 @ What (note:)When the young ostrich is grown up, he outruns the horse.(:note) time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
geneva@Job:39:19 @ Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with (note:)That is, given him courage? which is meant by neighing and shaking his neck.(:note) thunder?
geneva@Job:39:20 @ {\cf2 (39:23)} Hast thou made him afraid as the grashopper? his strong neying is fearefull.
geneva@Job:39:21 @ He (note:)He beats with his hoof.(:note) paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in [his] strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
geneva@Job:39:22 @ {\cf2 (39:25)} He mocketh at feare, and is not afraid, and turneth not backe from the sworde,
geneva@Job:39:23 @ {\cf2 (39:26)} Though the quiuer rattle against him, the glittering speare and the shield.
geneva@Job:39:24 @ He (note:)He so rides the ground that it seems nothing under him.(:note) swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that [it is] the sound of the trumpet.
geneva@Job:39:25 @ {\cf2 (39:28)} He sayth among the trumpets, Ha, ha: hee smelleth the battell afarre off, and the noyse of the captaines, and the shouting.
geneva@Job:39:26 @ Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, [and] stretch her wings toward the (note:)That is, when cold comes, to fly into the warm countries.(:note) south?
geneva@Job:39:27 @ {\cf2 (39:30)} Doeth the egle mount vp at thy commandement, or make his nest on hie?
geneva@Job:39:28 @ {\cf2 (39:31)} Shee abideth and remaineth in the rocke, euen vpon the toppe of the rocke, and the tower.
geneva@Job:39:29 @ {\cf2 (39:32)} From thence she spieth for meate, and her eyes beholde afarre off.
geneva@Job:39:30 @ {\cf2 (39:33)} His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where the slaine are, there is she.
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