### Douay Rheims Bible

Job 38

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 39
#### 1 | Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth among the rocks, or hast thou observed the hinds when they fawn?
#### 2 | Hast thou numbered the months of their conceiving, or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
#### 3 | They bow themselves to bring forth young, and they cast them, and send forth roarings.
#### 4 | Their young are weaned and go to feed : they go forth, and return not to them.
#### 5 | Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bonds?
#### 6 | To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land.
#### 7 | He scorneth the multitude of the city, he heareth not the cry of the driver.
#### 8 | He looketh round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh for every green thing.
#### 9 | Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at thy crib?
#### 10 | Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with thy thong to plough, or will he break the clods of the valleys after thee?
#### 11 | Wilt thou have confidence in his great strength, and leave thy labours to him?
#### 12 | Wilt thou trust him that he will render thee the seed, and gather it into thy barnfloor?
#### 13 | The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.
#### 14 | When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust.
#### 15 | She forgetteth that the foot may tread upon them, or that the beasts of the field may break them.
#### 16 | She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her.
#### 17 | For God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he given her understanding.
#### 18 | When time shall be, she setteth up her wings on high : she scorneth the horse and his rider.
#### 19 | Wilt thou give strength to the horse, or clothe his neck with neighing?
#### 20 | Wilt thou lift him up like the locusts? the glory of his nostrils is terror.
#### 21 | He breaketh up the earth with his hoof, he pranceth boldly, he goeth forward to meet armed men.
#### 22 | He despiseth fear, he turneth not his back to the sword,
#### 23 | Above him shall the quiver rattle, the spear and shield shall glitter.
#### 24 | Chasing and raging he swalloweth the ground, neither doth he make account when the noise of the trumpet soundeth.
#### 25 | When he heareth the trumpet he saith : Ha, ha : he smelleth the battle afar off, the encouraging of the captains, and the shouting of the army.
#### 26 | Doth the hawk wax feathered by thy wisdom, spreading her wings to the south?
#### 27 | Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest in high places?
#### 28 | She abideth among the rocks, and dwelleth among cragged flints, and stony hills, where there is no access.
#### 29 | From thence she looketh for the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
#### 30 | Her young ones shall suck up blood : and wheresoever the carcass shall be, she is immediately there.
#### 31 | And the Lord went on, and said to Job :
#### 32 | Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely he that reproveth God, ought to answer him.
#### 33 | Then Job answered the Lord, and said :
#### 34 | One thing I have spoken, which I wish I had not said : and another, to which I will add no more.

Job 40

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