1. Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth among the rocks, or hast thou observed the hinds when they fawn?
2. Hast thou numbered the months of their conceiving, or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
3. They bow themselves to bring forth young, and they cast them, and send forth roarings.
4. Their young are weaned and go to feed: they go forth, and return not to them.
5. Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bonds?
6. To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land.
7. He scorneth the multitude of the city, he heareth not the cry of the driver.
8. He looketh round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh for every green thing.
9. Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at thy crib?
10. Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with thy thong to plough, or will he break the clods of the valleys after thee?
11. Wilt thou have confidence in his great strength, and leave thy labours to him?
12. Wilt thou trust him that he will render thee the seed, and gather it into thy barnfloor?