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| [1]Say if thou knowest the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock, and if thou hast marked the calving of the hinds: |
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| [2]and if thou has hast numbered the full months of their being with young, and if thou hast relieved their pangs: |
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| [3]and hast reared their young without fear; and wilt thou loosen their pangs? |
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| [4]Their young will break forth; they will be multiplied with offspring: their young will go forth, and will not return to them. |
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| [5]And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? and who loosed his bands? |
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| [6]whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, and the salt land his coverts. |
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| [7]He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer. |
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| [8]He will survey the mountains as his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing. |
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| [9]And will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or to lie down at thy manger? |
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| [10]And wilt thou bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plough furrows for thee in the plain? |
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| [11]And dost thou trust him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou commit thy works to him? |
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| [12]And wilt thou believe that he will return to thee thy seed, and bring it in to thy threshing-floor? |
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| [13]The peacock has a beautiful wing: if the stork and the ostrich conceive, it is worthy of notice, |
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| [14]for the ostrich will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust, |
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| [15]and has forgotten that the foot will scatter them, and the wild beasts of the field trample them. |
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| [16]She has hardened herself against her young ones, as though she bereaved not herself: she labours in vain without fear. |
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| [17]For God has withholden wisdom from her, and not given her a portion in understanding. |
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| [18]In her season she will lift herself on high; she will scorn the horse and his rider. |
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| [19]Hast thou invested the horse with strength, and clothed his neck with terror? |
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| [20]And hast thou clad him in perfect armour, and made his breast glorious with courage? |
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| [21]He paws exulting in the plain, and goes forth in strength into the plain. |
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| [22]He laughs to scorn a king as he meets him, and will by no means turn back from the sword. |
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| [23]The bow and sword resound against him; and his rage will swallow up the ground: |
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| [24]and he will not believe until the trumpet sounds. |
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| [25]And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! and afar off he smells the war with prancing and neighing. |
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| [26]And does the hawk remain steady by thy wisdom, having spread out her wings unmoved, looking toward the region of the south? |
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| [27]And does the eagle rise at thy command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest, |
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| [28]on a crag of a rock, and in a secret place? |
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| [29]Thence he seeks food, his eyes observe from far. |
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| [30]And his young ones roll themselves in blood, and wherever the carcasses may be, immediately they are found. |
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| [31]And the Lord God answered Job, and said, |
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| [32]Will any one pervert judgment with the Mighty One? and he that reproves God, let him return it for answer. |
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| [33]And Job answered and said to the Lord, |
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| [34]Why do I yet plead? being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these arguments? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. |
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| [35]I have spoken once; but I will not do so a second time. |
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