and the way of the sounding thunder: 26That it should rayne vpon the earth, without man in the desert, where no mortal man abideth: 27That it should fil the desert and desolate ground, and should bring forth greene grasse? 28Who is the father of rayne? or who begot the drops of dew? 29Out of whose wombe came forth ye? and frost from heauen who ingendred? 30Waters are hardned like stone, and the face of the depth is congealed. 31Shalt thou be able to ioyne together the shining [1] starres Pleiades, or canst thou dissipate the circuite of Acturus? 32Doest thou bring forth the day starre in his time, & make euening starre to rise vpon the children of the earth? 33Doest thou know the order of heauen, and shalt thou put downe the reason therof on the earth? 34Shalt thou eleuate the voice in the cloud, & the violence of the waters couer thee. 35Shalt thou send lightnings, and wil they goe, and returning shal they say to thee: Here we are? 36Who put [2] wisedom in the hart of man? or who gaue the [3] cocke vnderstanding? 37Who shal declare the manner of the heauens, and the harmonie of heauen who shal make to *or rest from motion. sleep. 38When was the dust powred on the earth, and the clods compact together? 39 [4] Shalt thou take a prey for the lionesse and fil the appetite of her whelps. 40When they lie in the dennes, & in holes sit in wayte? 41Who prepareth for the rauen her meate, when her yong ones crie to God, wandring about, because they haue not meate?
CHAP. XXXIX.
HAST [5] thou knowen the time when the [6] wild goats bring forth yong among the rocks, or hast thou obserued the [7] hynds when they fawne? 2Hast thou numbred the months of their conceiuing, and knowen the time of their bearing? 3They bow downe themselues to bring forth yong, and they cast them, and make roarings. 4Their yong are separated, and goe to feed: they goe forth, and returne not to them. 5Who hath dismist the [8] wilde asse free, and who hath loosed his bonds? 6To whom I haue giuen a house in the wildernes, and his tabernacles in the land of saltnesse. 7He contemneth the multitude of the citie, the crie of the exactour he heareth not. 8He looketh about the mountaines of his pasture, and seeketh out al green places. 9Wil the [9] Rhinoceros serue thee, and wil he tarie at thy stal? 10Shal thou tie the Rhinoceros with thy
- ↑ Starres, and planets.
- ↑ Man hath his knowledge from God.
- ↑ And the cock hath skil which man wanteth.
- ↑ In some Editions the 39. chap beginneth here. Shewing by induction of sensible things (as before of insensible) that only God knoweth the nature of al creatures.
- ↑ By Gods meruelous prouidence appearing in the natural instinct of other creatures man may consider that the same is greater towards him. And therfore God here proposeth the examples of
- ↑ Wild goats.
- ↑ Hynds.
- ↑ Wilde asses.
- ↑ Vnicornes.
