- 1. "Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
- 2. Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?
- 3. They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, they end their labor pains.
- 4. Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go forth, and don't return again.
- 5. "Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
- 6. Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?
- 7. He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.
- 8. The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.
- 9. "Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
- 10. Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?
- 11. Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?
- 12. Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?
- 13. "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love?
- 14. For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,
- 15. and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.
- 16. She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
- 17. because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
- 18. When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.
- 19. "Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?
- 20. Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.
- 21. He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.
- 22. He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn back from the sword.
- 23. The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.
- 24. He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
- 25. As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, 'Aha!' He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
- 26. "Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?
- 27. Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?
- 28. On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.
- 29. From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.
- 30. His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is."
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