Job 39

¹Hast thou known the time of The bearing of the wild goats of the rock? The bringing forth of hinds thou dost mark!

²Thou dost number the months they fulfil? And thou hast known the time of their bringing forth!

³They bow down, Their young ones they bring forth safely, Their pangs they cast forth.

⁴Safe are their young ones, They grow up in the field, they have gone out, And have not returned to them.

⁵Who hath sent forth the wild ass free? Yea, the bands of the wild ass who opened?

⁶Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,

⁷He doth laugh at the multitude of a city, The cries of an exactor he heareth not.

⁸The range of mountains [is] his pasture, And after every green thing he seeketh.

⁹Is a Reem willing to serve thee? Doth he lodge by thy crib?

¹⁰Dost thou bind a Reem in a furrow [with] his thick band? Doth he harrow valleys after thee?

¹¹Dost thou trust in him because great [is] his power? And dost thou leave unto him thy labour?

¹²Dost thou trust in him That he doth bring back thy seed? And [to] thy threshing-floor doth gather [it]?

¹³The wing of the rattling ones exulteth, Whether the pinion of the ostrich or hawk.

¹⁴For she leaveth on the earth her eggs, And on the dust she doth warm them,