1. “Do you know the time when the wild mountain goats produce offspring?Or can you observe when the deer gives birth?
2. Can you number the months that they fulfill,or do you know the time when they bring forth?
3. They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones,they get rid of their labor pains.
4. Their young ones are healthy, they grow strong with grain;they go forth and do not return to them.
5. “Who has sent out the wild donkey free?Or who has loosed the bands of the wild donkey,
6. whose home I have made the wilderness,and the barren land his dwelling?
7. He scorns the multitude in the cityand does not regard the shouts of the driver.
8. The range of the mountains is his pasture,and he searches after every green thing.
9. “Will the wild ox be willing to serve youor spend the night by your manger?
10. Can you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes?Or will he plow the valleys behind you?
11. Will you trust him because his strength is great?Or will you leave your labor to him?
12. Will you trust him to bring home your grainand gather it into your barn?
13. “Did you give the beautiful wings to the peacocks?Or wings and feathers to the ostrich,
14. who leaves her eggs in the earth,and warms them in dust,
15. and forgets that a foot may crush them,or that the wild beast may break them?
16. She is hardened against her young ones,as though they were not hers;her labor is in vain, without concern,