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You know, for then you were born, and the number of your days is great.

which I have reserved for the time of distress for the day of battle and war?

Who has cut a channel for the flood; or a way for the thunderclaps,

Is there a father for the rain? Or who has given birth to the drops of dew?

Will you hunt the prey for the lion, or fill the appetite of the young lions,

Who provides food for the raven, when its young ones cry to God and wander about without food?

Can you tell the months they fulfill; or do you know the time for their bearing,

To whom I have assigned the desert for his home, and the salt land for his dwellings?

he seeks out mountains for his pasture; and he searches after every green thing.

Can you tie the wild ox in the furrow with his rope? Or will he harrow the valleys for you?

The wing of the ostriches flap joyously, though not like the stork's pinions for flight.

For she leaves her eggs to the earth, and lets them warm on the dust;

she treats her young roughly, as if they are not hers; for her labor is vanity without fear;

He swallows the ground with quivering and trembling, and he does not stand still for the sound of the ram's horn.

For the mountains yield food for him, and all the beasts of the field play there.

Will he multiply pleas for help to you; or will he speak soft words to you?

Will he cut a covenant with you; will you take him for a slave forever?

Will you play with him as with a bird; or will you tie him up for your maidens?

Who is this hiding counsel without knowledge? So I declared, but did not understand things too wonderful for me; yea, I did not know.

And it happened, after Jehovah spoke these words to Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My anger glows against you and your two friends. For You have not spoken the right about Me, as My servant Job.