¹Do you know the time the wild goats of the crag bear young? Do you keep watch over the does as they writhe in labor?

²Do you count the months they fill, and do you know the time they bear young?

³They crouch; they split open their young; they send out their pangs.

⁴Their young grow strong, they increase in the open country; they go out and do not return to them.

⁵Who set the wild donkey free, and who loosened the fetters of the wild ass?

⁶whose home I set in the desert plain, and his dwellings in the salt land?

⁷He laughs at the tumult of the town; he does not hear the shouts of the driver.

⁸He explores the mountains as his pasture, and he seeks after every green plant.

⁹Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Or will he spend the night at your feeding trough?

¹⁰Can you bind the wild ox in the furrow with his cord? Or will he harrow the valleys behind you?

¹¹Will you trust in him, for his strength is great? Will you leave your toil to him?

¹²Will you trust in him that he will bring back your seed and gather in your threshing floor?

¹³The wing of the ostrich flaps joyously, yet is it the pinion and plumage of a stork?

¹⁴For she leaves her eggs on the land, and keeps them warm on the dust,

¹⁵and she forgets that a foot may crush them, and the beast of the field may trample them.

¹⁶She deals hard with her young, as though they were not hers; her toil is in vain, without fear.

¹⁷For God made her forget wisdom, and did not assign her a share in understanding.

¹⁸At the time she flaps on the height, she laughs at the horse and at its rider.

¹⁹Do you give the horse might? Do you clothe his neck with a quivering mane?

²⁰Do you make him leap like a locust? The majesty of his snorting is terror.

²¹They dig in the valley, and he exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weaponry.

²²He laughs at fear and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the face of the sword.

²³Upon him the quiver rattles, the flashing blade of the spear and the javelin.

²⁴With shaking and agitation he swallows the land, and will not stand firm when the sound of the horn comes.

²⁵With each full blast of the horn he says, 'Aha!' and from afar he smells the battle, the thunder of the captains, and the battle-cry.

²⁶Is it from your understanding that the falcon flies and spreads his wings toward the south?

²⁷Or does the eagle soar at your command, and set his nest on high?

²⁸He dwells on the crag and spends the night on the tooth of the crag, a stronghold.

²⁹From there he searches out food; his eyes look from afar.

³⁰His chicks sip up blood; and where the slain are, there he is.