1 禄Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the deer?
2 禄Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth,
3 when they crouch to give birth to their offspring, and are delivered of their young?
4 禄Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth, and do not return to them.
5 禄Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey?
6 禄Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwelling?
7 禄He scorns the tumult of the city. He does not heed the shouts of the driver.
8 禄The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
9 禄Will the wild ox be willing to serve you? Will he bed by your manger?
10 禄Can you bind the wild bull in the furrow with ropes? Or will he plow the valleys behind you?
11 禄Will you rely on him for his great strength? Will you leave your heavy work to him?
12 禄Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
13 禄The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but they cannot compare with the pinions and feathers of the stork.
14 禄She lays her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.
15 禄She is unaware that a foot may crush them, that some wild animal may trample them.
16 禄She treats her young cruelly, as if they were not hers. Even if her labor is in vain, she is unconcerned.
17 禄This is because God has made her forget wisdom. He has not given her a share of understanding.
18 禄When she lifts herself on high, she laughs at the horse and his rider.
19 禄Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane?
20 禄Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.
21 禄It paws in strength and finds joy in its power. It charges into battle.
22 禄It laughs at fear, is afraid of nothing, and does not back away from swords.
23 禄A quiver of arrows rattles on it along with the flashing spear and javelin.
24 禄Anxious and excited, the horse eats up the ground and does not trust the sound of the ram's horn.
25 禄As often as the horn sounds, the horse says: Aha! And it smells the battle far away; the thundering orders of the captains and the battle cries.
26 禄Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and spreads its wings toward the south?
27 禄Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes its nest on high?
28 禄It lives on the rock and makes its home in the fastness of the rocky crag.
29 禄It spies the pray from there. Its eyes see it from far away.
30 禄Its young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there it is.