Job 39

¹“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?

²Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth?

³They crouch down and bring forth their young; they deliver their newborn.

⁴Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return.

⁵Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?

⁶I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.

⁷He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.

⁸He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.

⁹Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?

¹⁰Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?

¹¹Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?

¹²Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?

¹³The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.

¹⁴For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.

¹⁵She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.