Job 39

¹Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth among the rocks, or hast thou observed the hinds when they fawn?

²Hast thou numbered the months of their conceiving, or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

³They bow themselves to bring forth young, and they cast them, and send forth roarings.

⁴Their young are weaned and go to feed: they go forth, and return not to them.

⁵Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bonds?

⁶To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land.

⁷He scorneth the multitude of the city, he heareth not the cry of the driver.

⁸He looketh round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh for every green thing.

⁹Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at thy crib?

¹⁰Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with thy thong to plough, or will he break the clods of the valleys after thee?

¹¹Wilt thou have confidence in his great strength, and leave thy labours to him?

¹²Wilt thou trust him that he will render thee the seed, and gather it into thy barnfloor?

¹³The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.

¹⁴When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust.

She forgetteth that the foot may tread upon them, or that the beasts of the field may break them.