1. Dost thou have da'as of the et (time) when the mountain goats give birth, or art thou shomer to watch when the doe bears her fawn?
2. Canst thou number the months that they fulfil, or dost thou have da'as of the et (time) when they give birth?
3. They crouch down, they bring forth their yeledim, their chavalim (birth pains) are cast off in riddance.
4. Their banim gain strength, they grow up in the bar (open, wild); they go forth, and return not unto them.
5. Who hath sent out the pere (wild donkey) free, or who hath untied the ropes of the arod (wild donkey, onager),
6. Whose bais I have made the aravah, and the barren land his mishkenot (dwellings)?
7. He laughs at the tumult of the kiryah (city), neither regardeth he the shouts of the driver.
8. The range of the harim is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
9. Will the wild ox be willing to be thy eved, or stay the night by thy evus (animal feeding trough)?
10. Canst thou bind the wild ox to the furrow with a rope, or will it behind thee till the amakim (valleys)?
11. Wilt thou depend on him, because his ko'ach is great, or wilt thou hand over thy heavy work to him?
12. Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring in thy zera (grain), and gather it into thy goren (threshing floor)?