Job 39

¹Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? dost thou mark the calving of the hinds?

²Dost thou number the months that they fulfil? and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

³They bow themselves, they give birth to their young ones, they cast out their pains;

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

⁵Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager,

⁶Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?

⁷He laugheth at the tumult of the city, and heareth not the shouts of the driver;

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

⁹Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib?

¹⁰Canst thou bind the buffalo with his cord in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

¹¹Wilt thou put confidence in him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

¹²Wilt thou trust him to bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor?

¹³The wing of the ostrich beats joyously — But is it the stork's pinion and plumage?

¹⁴For she leaveth her eggs to the earth, and warmeth them in the dust,