1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? |
2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? |
3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows. |
4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. |
5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? |
6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. |
7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. |
8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth 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? or 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 believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? |
13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? |
14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, |
15 And forgetteth 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: her labour is in vain without fear; |
17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding. |
18 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider. |
