1
Knowest thou the time when the mountain goats bring forth? Hast thou observed when the hinds calve?
2
Canst thou number the months
that they fulfil, and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
3
How they crouch down, they bring forth their young ones, and dismiss their pain.
4
Their young ones are healthy, they grow up with grain; they go forth and never return unto them again.
5
Who freed the wild ass, and who loosed its bands?
6
Unto whom I made a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the salty land.
7
He laughs at the multitude of the city, neither does he hearken to the voice of the exactor
of tribute.
8
The range of the mountains
is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
9
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee or abide by thy crib?