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"Do you know when 1the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe 2the calving of the does?
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Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth,
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when they 3crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young?
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Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and 4do not return to them.
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"Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has 5loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
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to whom I have given 6the arid plain for his home and 7the salt land for his dwelling place?
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He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver.
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He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.