1. Do you know at what time the wild goats have given birth among the rocks, or do you observe the deer when they go into labor?
2. Have you numbered the months since their conception, and do you know at what time they gave birth?
3. They bend themselves for their offspring, and they give birth, and they emit roars.
4. Their young are weaned and go out to feed; they depart and do not return to them.
5. Who has set the wild ass free, and who has released his bonds?
6. I have given a house in solitude to him, and his tabernacle is in the salted land.
7. He despises the crowded city; he does not pay attention to the bellow of the tax collector.
8. He looks around the mountains of his pasture, and he searches everywhere for green plants.
9. Will the rhinoceros be willing to serve you, and will he remain in your stall?
10. Can you detain the rhinoceros with your harness to plough for you, and will he loosen the soil of the furrows behind you?
11. Will you put your faith in his great strength, and delegate your labors to him?
12. Will you trust him to return to you the seed, and to gather it on your drying floor?