| 1 | Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? dost thou mark the calving of the hinds? |
| 2 | Dost thou number the months that they fulfil? and knowest thou the time when they bring forth? |
| 3 | They bow themselves, they give birth to their young ones, they cast out their pains; |
| 4 | Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go forth, and return not unto them. |
| 5 | Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager, |
| 6 | Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings? |
| 7 | He laugheth at the tumult of the city, and heareth not the shouts of the driver; |
| 8 | The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. |
| 9 | Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib? |
| 10 | Canst thou bind the buffalo with his cord in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? |
| 11 | Wilt thou put confidence in him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou leave thy labour to him? |
| 12 | Wilt thou trust him to bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor? |
| 13 | The wing of the ostrich beats joyously—But is it the stork's pinion and plumage? |
| 14 | For she leaveth her eggs to the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, |
| 15 | And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may trample them. |
| 16 | She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern. |
| 17 | For +God hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding. |
| 18 | What time she lasheth herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider. |
| 19 | Hast thou given strength to the horse? hast thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane? |
| 20 | Dost thou make him to leap as a locust? His majestic snorting is terrible. |
| 21 | He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in [his] strength; he goeth forth to meet the armed host. |
| 22 | He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from before the sword. |
| 23 | The quiver rattleth upon him, the glittering spear and the javelin. |
| 24 | He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, and cannot contain himself at the sound of the trumpet: |
| 25 | At the noise of the trumpets he saith, Aha! and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. |
| 26 | Doth the hawk fly by thine intelligence, [and] stretch his wings toward the south? |
| 27 | Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make his nest on high? |
| 28 | He inhabiteth the rock and maketh his dwelling on the point of the cliff, and the fastness: |
| 29 | From thence he spieth out the prey, his eyes look into the distance; |
| 30 | And his young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is he. |