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¹ Knowest thou the time when the wilde goates bring foorth yong? or doest thou marke when the hindes doe calue?² Canst thou nomber the moneths that they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth?³ They bow them selues: they bruise their yong and cast out their sorowes.⁴ Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them.⁵ Who hath set the wilde asse at libertie? or who hath loosed the bondes of the wilde asse?⁶ It is I which haue made the wildernesse his house, and the salt places his dwellings.⁷ He derideth the multitude of the citie: he heareth not the crie of the driuer.⁸ He seeketh out the mountaine for his pasture, and searcheth after euery greene thing.⁹ Will the vnicorne serue thee? or will he tary by thy cribbe?¹⁰ Canst thou binde the vnicorne with his band to labour in the furrowe? or will he plowe the valleyes after thee?¹¹ Wilt thou trust in him, because his stregth is great, and cast off thy labour vnto him?¹² Wilt thou beleeue him, that he will bring home thy seede, and gather it vnto thy barne?

¹³ Hast thou giuen the pleasant wings vnto the peacockes? or winges and feathers vnto the ostriche?¹⁴ Which leaueth his egges in the earth, and maketh them hote in the dust,¹⁵ And forgetteth that the foote might scatter the, or that the wild beast might breake the.¹⁶ He sheweth himselfe cruell vnto his yong ones, as they were not his, and is without feare, as if he trauailed in vaine.¹⁷ For God had depriued him of wisedom, and hath giuen him no part of vnderstanding.¹⁸ When time is, he mounteth on hie: he mocketh the horse and his rider.

¹⁹ Hast thou giuen the horse strength? or couered his necke with neying?²⁰ Hast thou made him afraid as the grashopper? his strong neying is fearefull.²¹ He diggeth in the valley, and reioyceth in his strength: he goeth foorth to meete the harnest man.²² He mocketh at feare, and is not afraid, and turneth not backe from the sworde,²³ Though the quiuer rattle against him, the glittering speare and the shield.²⁴ He swalloweth the ground for fearcenes and rage, and he beleeueth not that it is the noise of the trumpet.²⁵ He sayth among the trumpets, Ha, ha: hee smelleth the battell afarre off, and the noyse of the captaines, and the shouting.

²⁶ Shall the hauke flie by thy wisedome, stretching out his wings toward the South?²⁷ Doeth the egle mount vp at thy commandement, or make his nest on hie?²⁸ Shee abideth and remaineth in the rocke, euen vpon the toppe of the rocke, and the tower.²⁹ From thence she spieth for meate, and her eyes beholde afarre off.³⁰ His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where the slaine are, there is she.