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988 and the way of the sounding thunder: That it should rayne vpon the earth, without man in the desert, where no mortal man abideth: That it should fil the desert and desolate ground, and should bring forth greene grasse? Who is the father of rayne? or who begot the drops of dew? Out of whose wombe came forth ye? and frost from heauen who ingendred? Waters are hardned like stone, and the face of the depth is congealed. Shalt thou be able to ioyne together the shining starres Pleiades, or canst thou dissipate the circuite of Acturus? Doest thou bring forth the day starre in his time, & make euening starre to rise vpon the children of the earth? Doest thou know the order of heauen, and shalt thou put downe the reason therof on the earth? Shalt thou eleuate the voice in the cloud, & the violence of the waters couer thee. Shalt thou send lightnings, and wil they goe, and returning shal they say to thee: Here we are? Who put wisedom in the hart of man? or who gaue the cocke vnderstanding? Who shal declare the manner of the heauens, and the harmonie of heauen who shal make to * sleep. When was the dust powred on the earth, and the clods compact together? Shalt thou take a prey for the lionesse and fil the appetite of her whelps. When they lie in the dennes, & in holes sit in wayte? Who prepareth for the rauen her meate, when her yong ones crie to God, wandring about, because they haue not meate?

CHAP. XXXIX.

AST thou knowen the time when the wild goats bring forth yong among the rocks, or hast thou obserued the hynds when they fawne? Hast thou numbred the months of their conceiuing, and knowen the time of their bearing? They bow downe themselues to bring forth yong, and they cast them, and make roarings. Their yong are separated, and goe to feed: they goe forth, and returne not to them. Who hath dismist the wilde asse free, and who hath loosed his bonds? To whom I haue giuen a house in the wildernes, and his tabernacles in the land of saltnesse. He contemneth the multitude of the citie, the crie of the exactour he heareth not. He looketh about the mountaines of his pasture, and seeketh out al green places. Wil the Rhinoceros serue thee, and wil he tarie at thy stal? Shal thou tie the Rhinoceros with thy Rh