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| 1 Knowest thou the season when the Wild Goats of the crags beget? The bringing forth of the hinds, canst thou observe? |
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| 2 Canst thou count the months they fulfill? Or knowest thou the time when they give birth? |
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| 3 They kneel down, their young, they bring forth; their pains, they throw off; |
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| 4 Their young become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go out, and return not unto them.
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| 5 Who hath sent forth the Wild Ass free? And, the bands of the swift-runner, who hath loosed? |
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| 6 Whose house I have made the waste plain, and his dwellings, the land of salt: |
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| 7 He laugheth at the throng of the city, The shoutings of the driver, he heareth not; |
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| 8 He espieth the mountains, his pasture-ground, and, after every green thing, maketh search. |
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| 9 Will the Wild-Ox be pleased to be thy servant? or lodge for the night by thy crib? |
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| 10 Canst thou bind the wild-ox, so that–with the ridge–shall run his cord? Or will he harrow the furrows after thee? |
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| 11 Wilt thou trust in him, because of the greatness of his strength? Wilt thou leave unto him thy toil? |
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| 12 Wilt thou put faith in him, that he will bring back thy seed? and that, corn for thy threshing-floor, he will gather? |
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| 13 The wing of the Ostrich that waveth itself joyfully, Is it the pinion of lovingkindness or the plumage? |
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| 14 For she leaveth–to the earth–her eggs, and, on the dust, she letteth them be warmed; |
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| 15 And hath forgotten, that, a foot, may crush them,–or, the wild beast, tread on them! |
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| 16 Dealing hardly with her young, as none-of hers, In vain, her labour, without dread. |
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| 17 For GOD hath suffered her to forget wisdom, and given her no share in understanding. |
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| 18 What time, on high, she vibrateth her wings, she laugheth at the horse and his rider. |
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| 19 Couldst thou give–to the Horse–strength? Couldst thou clothe his neck with the quivering mane? |
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| 20 Couldst thou cause him to leap like a locust? The majesty of his snort, is a terror! |
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| 21 He diggeth into the plain, and rejoiceth in vigour, he goeth forth to meet armour; |
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| 22 He laugheth at dread, and is not dismayed, neither turneth he back, from the face of the sword; |
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| 23 Against him, whiz [the arrows of] the quiver, the flashing head of spear and javelin; |
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| 24 With stamping and rage, he drinketh up the ground,–he will not stand still when the horn soundeth; |
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| 25 As oft as the horn soundeth, he saith, Aha! And, from afar, he scenteth the battle,–the thunder of commanders and the war-cry. |
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| 26 Is it, by thine understanding, that the Bird of Passage betaketh him to his pinions? spreadeth out his wings to the south? |
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| 27 Or, at thy bidding, that the Eagle mounteth, and that he setteth on high his nest? |
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| 28 The crag, he inhabiteth, and so lodgeth himself, on the tooth of the crag, and high fort; |
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| 29 From thence, he searcheth out food, far away, his eyes do pierce; |
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| 30 And, his young brood, suck up blood, and, where the slain are, there, is he. |
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