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39‘Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?
   Do you observe the calving of the deer?
² Can you number the months that they fulfil,
   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 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 which I have given the steppe for its home,
   the salt land for its dwelling-place?
⁷ It scorns the tumult of the city;
   it does not hear the shouts of the driver.
⁸ It ranges the mountains as its pasture,
   and it searches after every green thing.

⁹ ‘Is the wild ox willing to serve you?
   Will it spend the night at your crib?
¹⁰ Can you tie it in the furrow with ropes,
   or will it harrow the valleys after you?
¹¹ Will you depend on it because its strength is great,
   and will you hand over your labour to it?
¹² Do you have faith in it that it will return,
   and bring your grain to your threshing-floor?^*

²⁶ ‘Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars,
   and spreads its wings towards the south?
²⁷ Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up
   and makes its nest on high?
²⁸ It lives on the rock and makes its home
   in the fastness of the rocky crag.
²⁹ From there it spies the prey;
   its eyes see it from far away.
³⁰ Its young ones suck up blood;
   and where the slain are, there it is.’