✧“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns? ✧2Can you count the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth? ✧3They bow themselves. They bear their young. They end their labor pains. ✧4Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go out, and don’t return again. ✧5“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey, ✧6whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place? ✧7He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver. ✧8The range of the mountains is his pasture. He searches after every green thing. ✧9“Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough? ✧10Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you? ✧11Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor? ✧12Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor? ✧13“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the feathers and plumage of love? ✧14For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust, ✧15and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them. ✧16She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear, ✧17because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding. ✧18When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider. ✧19“Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane? ✧20Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome. ✧21He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men. ✧22He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn back from the sword. ✧23The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin. ✧24He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet. ✧25As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. ✧26“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south? ✧27Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high? ✧28On the cliff he dwells and makes his home, on the point of the cliff and the stronghold. ✧29From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off. ✧30His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is.”