1
Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? dost thou mark the calving of the hinds?
2
Dost thou number the months that they fulfil? and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
3
They bow themselves, they give birth to their young ones, they cast out their pains;
4
Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go forth, and return not unto them.
5
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager,
6
Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?
7
He laugheth at the tumult of the city, and heareth not the shouts of the driver;
8
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
9
Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib?