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?
10. Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? Will he harrow the valleys after thee?
11. Wilt thou trust him because his strength is great? Or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
12. Wilt thou trust him, that he will bring home thy seed and gather it into thy barn?
13. Didst thou give beautiful wings unto the peacock, or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
14. Who leaves her eggs in the earth and warms them in dust
15. and forgets that the foot may crush them or that the wild beast may break them.
16. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, not fearing that her labour is in vain,
17. because God caused her to forget wisdom and did not give her understanding.
18. In her time she lifts up herself on high; she scorns the horse and his rider.
19. Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?