1-4. “Do you know the month when mountain goats give birth?Have you ever watched a doe bear her fawn?Do you know how many months she is pregnant?Do you know the season of her delivery,when she crouches down and drops her offspring?Her young ones flourish and are soon on their own;they leave and don’t come back.
5-8. “Who do you think set the wild donkey free,opened the corral gates and let him go?I gave him the whole wilderness to roam in,the rolling plains and wide-open places.He laughs at his city cousins, who are harnessed and harried.He’s oblivious to the cries of teamsters.He grazes freely through the hills,nibbling anything that’s green.
9-12. “Will the wild buffalo condescend to serve you,volunteer to spend the night in your barn?Can you imagine hitching your plow to a buffaloand getting him to till your fields?He’s hugely strong, yes, but could you trust him,would you dare turn the job over to him?You wouldn’t for a minute depend on him, would you,to do what you said when you said it?
13-18. “The ostrich flaps her wings futilely—all those beautiful feathers, but useless!She lays her eggs on the hard ground,leaves them there in the dirt, exposed to the weather,Not caring that they might get stepped on and crackedor trampled by some wild animal.She’s negligent with her young, as if they weren’t even hers.She cares nothing about anything.She wasn’t created very smart, that’s for sure,wasn’t given her share of good sense.But when she runs, oh, how she runs,laughing, leaving horse and rider in the dust.