Job 39

¹Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

²Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? Or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

³They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, They cast out their pains.

⁴Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field; They go forth, and return not again.

⁵Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bonds of the swift ass,

⁶Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?

⁷He scorneth the tumult of the city, Neither heareth he the shoutings of the driver.

⁸The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searcheth after every green thing.

⁹Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?

¹⁰Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

¹¹Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? Or wilt thou leave to him thy labor?

¹²Wilt thou confide in him, that he will bring home thy seed, And gather the grain of thy threshing-floor?

¹³The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; But are they the pinions and plumage of love?

¹⁴For she leaveth her eggs on the earth, And warmeth them in the dust,