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¹ Knowest thou the time whe the wylde goates bring foorth their young among the stonye rockes? or layest thou wayte when the hindes vse to calue?² Canst thou number the monethes that they go with young? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth?³ They lye downe, they calue their young ones, and they are deliuered of their trauaile and paine:⁴ Yet their young ones grow vp, and waxe fatte through good feeding with corne: They go foorth, and returne not againe vnto them.⁵ Who letteth the wylde asse to go free? or who looseth the bondes of the wylde mule?⁶ Euen I which haue geuen the wyldernesse to be their house, and the vntilled land to be their dwelling.⁷ They force not for the multitude of people in the citie, neither regarde the crying of the driuer:⁸ But seeke their pasture about the mountaines, and folowe the greene grasse.⁹ Wyll the vnicorne do thee seruice, or abide still by thy cribbe?¹⁰ Canst thou binde the yoke about the vnicorne in the forowe, to make him plowe after thee in the valleyes?¹¹ Mayst thou trust him because he is strong, or commit thy labour vnto him?¹² Mayst thou beleue him that he wyll bring home thy corne, or carry any thing vnto thy barne?

¹³ Gauest thou the faire winges vnto the pecockes, or winges and fethers vnto the Estriche?¹⁴ For she leaueth her egges in the earth, and heateth them in the dust.¹⁵ She remembreth not that they might be troden with feete, or broken with some wilde beaste.¹⁶ So harde is she vnto her young ones as though they were not hers, and laboureth in vaine without any feare.¹⁷ And that because God hath taken wysdome from her, & hath not geuen her vnderstanding.¹⁸ When her time is that she fleeth vp on hie, she careth neither for the horse nor the ryder.

¹⁹ Hast thou geue the horse his strength, or learned him to ney coragiously?²⁰ Canst thou make him afrayde as a grashopper? where as the stoute neying that he maketh is fearefull.²¹ He breaketh the grounde with the hooffes of his feete, he reioyceth cherefully in his strength, and runneth to meete the harnest men.²² He layeth aside all feare, his stomacke is not abated, neither starteth he backe for any sworde.²³ Though the quiuers rattle vpon him, though the speare and shielde glister:²⁴ Yet rusheth he in fiercely beating the grounde, he thinketh it not the noyse of the trumpettes:²⁵ But when the trumpettes make most noyse, he saith, tushe, for he smelleth the battaile a farre of, the noyse of the captaines and the shouting.

²⁶ Commeth it through thy wysdome that the Goshauke flieth toward the south?²⁷ Doth the Egle mount vp, and make his nest on hye at thy comaundement?²⁸ He abydeth in stony rockes, and dwelleth vpon the hye toppes of moutaines:²⁹ From whence he seeketh his praye, and loketh farre about with his eyes.³⁰ His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where any dead body lyeth, there is he.