Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth?.... Which creatures are so called, because they dwell among the rocks and run upon them; and though their heads are loaded with a vast burden of horns upon them, yet can so poise themselves, as with the greatest swiftness, to leap from mountain to mountain, as Pliny says : and if they bring forth their young in the rocks, as Olympiodorus asserts, and which is not improbable, it is not to be wondered, that the time of their bringing forth should not be known by men, to whom the rocks they run upon are inaccessible;[or] canst thou mark the time when the hinds do calve?
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Job 39:26
Job 39:26
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