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¹ "Do you know when the mountain goats bring forth? Do you observe the calving of the hinds?² Can you number the months that they fulfil, and do you know the time when they bring forth,³ when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young?⁴ Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth, and do not return to them.⁵ "Who has let the wild ass go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,⁶ to whom I have given the steppe for his home, and the salt land for his dwelling place?⁷ He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver.⁸ He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.⁹ "Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your crib?¹⁰ Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?¹¹ Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor?¹² Do you have faith in him that he will return, and bring your grain to your threshing floor?

¹³ "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the pinions and plumage of love?¹⁴ For she leaves her eggs to the earth, and lets them be warmed on the ground,¹⁵ forgetting that a foot may crush them, and that the wild beast may trample them.¹⁶ She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear;¹⁷ because God has made her forget wisdom, and given her no share in understanding.¹⁸ When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider.

¹⁹ "Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with strength?²⁰ Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.²¹ He paws in the valley, and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons.²² He laughs at fear, and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword.²³ Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear and the javelin.²⁴ With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.²⁵ When the trumpet sounds, he says 'Aha!' He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

²⁶ "Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and spreads his wings toward the south?²⁷ Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high?²⁸ On the rock he dwells and makes his home in the fastness of the rocky crag.²⁹ Thence he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it afar off.³⁰ His young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is he."