1
Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?
2
Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?
3
They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.
4
Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.
5
Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?
6
To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.
7
He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;
8
He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.
9
Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?
10
Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?