1. Do you know when mountain goats are born,or watch for the birth pangs of deer,
2. Number the months that they must fulfill,or know when they give birth,
3. When they crouch down and drop their young,when they deliver their progeny?
4. Their offspring thrive and grow in the open,they leave and do not return.
5. Who has given the wild donkey his freedom,and who has loosed the wild ass from bonds?
6. I have made the wilderness his homeand the salt flats his dwelling.
7. He scoffs at the uproar of the city,hears no shouts of a driver.
8. He ranges the mountains for pasture,and seeks out every patch of green.
9. Will the wild ox consent to serve you,or pass the nights at your manger?
10. Will you bind the wild ox with a rope in the furrow,and will he plow the valleys after you?
11. Will you depend on him for his great strengthand leave to him the fruits of your toil?
12. Can you rely on him to bring in your grainand gather in the yield of your threshing floor?
13. The wings of the ostrich flap away;her plumage is lacking in feathers.
14. When she abandons her eggs on the groundand lets them warm in the sand,
15. She forgets that a foot may crush them,that the wild beasts may trample them;
16. She cruelly disowns her youngand her labor is useless; she has no fear.