39 Do you catch the prey of the lioness, and feed the young lions?

40 When they lie in dens or lie in ambush under the shadows?

41 Who prepares the raven's food, when his chicks cry out to God, wandering about without food?

39

1 Do you know the time when wild goats are born on the rocks, and have you noticed the birth of fallow deer?

2 Can you calculate the months of their pregnancy? and knowest thou the time of their birth?

3 They bend, bearing forth their children, throwing out their burdens;

4 Their children come to strength, grow up in the field, and go away, and do not return to them.

5 Who let the wild ass go free, and who loosed the chains of the onager,

6 To whom have I appointed the steppe as my home, and the salt marshes as my dwelling?

7 He laugheth at the multitude of the city, and heareth not the cry of the driver;

8 In the mountains he seeks food for himself, and pursues every herb.

9 Will the unicorn serve you, and will he spend the night at your manger?

10 Can you tie a unicorn to the furrow with a rope, and will it harrowing the field after you?

11 Wilt thou put thy trust in him, for he hath great power, and wilt thou give him thy work?

12 Wilt thou believe him, that he shall bring back thy seeds, and lay them upon thy threshing floor?

13 Have you given beautiful wings to the peacock, and feathers and down to the ostrich?

14 He leaves his eggs on the ground, and warms them in the sand,

15 and forgets that the foot can crush them, and the beast of the field can trample them;

16 He is cruel to his children, as if it were not his own, and feareth not that his labor shall be in vain;

17 for God hath not given him wisdom, nor hath given him understanding;