1. Knowest thou the time when the mountain goats bring forth? Hast thou observed when the hinds calve?
2. Canst thou number the months that they fulfil, and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
3. How they crouch down, they bring forth their young ones, and dismiss their pain.
4. Their young ones are healthy, they grow up with grain; they go forth and never return unto them again.
5. Who freed the wild ass, and who loosed its bands?
6. Unto whom I made a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the salty land.
7. He laughs at the multitude of the city, neither does he hearken to the voice of the exactor of tribute.
8. The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
9. Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee or abide by thy crib?
10. Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? Will he harrow the valleys after thee?
11. Wilt thou trust him because his strength is great? Or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
12. Wilt thou trust him, that he will bring home thy seed and gather it into thy barn?
13. Didst thou give beautiful wings unto the peacock, or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?